“The Simpsons” episode two of season 34 contains the line: “Look at beautiful China.
Bitcoin mines, labor camps and children putting together smart phones and love”.
According to news outlet AFP, the episode was published last October on the streaming service but is now unavailable in Hong Kong.
"A very sensitive regime"
According to SVT's Asia correspondent Tilde Lewin, it is not unusual for television and film to be censored by China.
- The Chinese regime is a very sensitive regime.
It is not only labor camps, but it can be Tibet, homosexuality and a long list of forbidden subjects.
According to Lewin, there are many American television and film productions that, on the one hand, want to reach out to the large Chinese audience, but on the other hand, do not want to adapt too much to the censorship that prevails.
- They also have their eyes on you in Hollywood, you can't adapt as much as you like.
Not the first time
Earlier, another episode of "The Simpsons" was removed in Hong Kong after containing satire directed at China.
Then one episode featured a scene from Beijing's Tiananmen Square with a sign reading "In this place, nothing happened in 1989", referring to the Chinese regime's cover-up of the massacre of the pro-democracy movement in the square in 1989.
Neither the government in Hong Kong nor Disney+ has so far wanted to comment on what happened.
Hear Tilde Lewin tell more about the Chinese censorship in the clip above.