For several days in the past week, the Danish public service radio's popular children's app Ramasjang was away from Google's app store. And it was no mistake. Google informed DR that the program content conveyed bad values ​​to the young audience and that the app had therefore been stopped.

Violence and smoking occur, Google blamed.

Ninjas and licorice pipes

The child music artist Uncle Reje - "Uncle Räka" - is responsible for the violence when he fights against ninjas. The smoking they were referring to was host Kristian Gintberg's constant munching on licorice pipes in the children's program Ramasjang Mysteriet.

After much attention in the Danish news media and not least social media, google has changed. DR Ramasjang has been back in Google's influential app store since Thursday.

Not changed anything

- We have not changed anything, we have not edited any of our content, says DR's media director Henriette Marienlund to DR News. So exactly what is the reason why the app is now available again we do not know.

Marienlund says she is surprised by Google's actions.

- Google works as an infrastructure for us and should not be more than that. We are the ones who cure and decide.

- DR Ramasjang has skewed, different and borderline characters and we make superb content for Danish children. We would like to have a lively debate about our child content, but we do not want to have that discussion with Google.

"Do not know what they are talking about"

DR Ramasjang has received support from, among others, Minister of Culture Joy Mogensen (S).

- Licorice pipes do not make anyone start smoking, and Uncle Reje does not pose a threat to anyone. Google simply does not know what they are talking about. DR has been a world leader in children's television for half a century. There is absolutely nothing Google can teach Danmarks Radio about how to talk to children, writes Minister of Culture Joy Mogensen in a comment to the newspaper Politiken.