Disney Plus have removed The Simpsons episode One Angry Lisa from the platform in Hong Kong, after one character said the 'wonders of China’ included ‘forced labour camps where children make smartphones.'
The episode, titled One Angry Lisa, was released in October last year and formed part of the long-running series’ 34th season.
It follows Marge as she discovers a passion for bike riding, which eventually leads her to tackle the sport on the Great Wall.from audiences in Hong Kong, it’s been reported.He adds: ‘Bitcoin mines, forced labour camps where children make smartphones,’While the Chinese government has always denied the allegations, it has been the focus of claims that it is carrying out human rights abuses and forced labour against the Uyghur people at mass detention centres in the Xinjiang province.
The 12th episode of the 16th season, Goo Goo Gai Pan, satirised the 1989 massacre that took part in Beijing. In 2021, it removed an episode of The Simpsons that satirised the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, which began with a student demonstration and ended in hundreds of deaths.The episode showed the Simpson’s seeing a sign at the site which read: ‘On this site, in 1989, nothing happened.’
Homer Simpson also called Mao Zedong, the former Chinese Communist Party leader, a ‘little angel’ who killed millions.
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