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South Park Responds to Being Banned in China for “Band in China”

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Re: South Park Responds to Being Banned in China for “Band in China”

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Post by boudin »

baud147258 wrote: post #207
boudin wrote: post #182

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The result is absolutly not similar since there is no censorship at all. This is even the oposite since those epsiodes are available... If you're not happy with Netflix deciding to filter what's available, just stop using netflix.

The two episodes about Muhammad are actually censored in France and are not present in the DVD sold in France: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park#Épisodes_censurés_e...

Oh true. I'm a bit surprised about the claim of the CSA censoring an episode since it doesn't have this power at all (it can only act once something has been broadcasted). Looks more like TF1 and Gameone decided not to publish those. I wonder if another publisher could acquire the right and actually publish those.

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Post by hamilyon2 »

rasz wrote: post #178
jaimex2 wrote: post #12

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You said it, todays top post on HN is Apple complying with the removal of Taiwan from their OS.

Arent Apple chips manufactured in Taiwan? Would Wouldnt it be funny if TSMC decided Apple doesnt exist?

That would be hell of a day for Intel

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Post by tim333 »

Iv wrote: post #164
toomanyrichies wrote: post #81

Comedy Central is owned by Viacom, which also owns Paramount Pictures. China is a huge market for Paramount's films. Paramount has previously explored a 49% sale to China's Wanda Group, and they currently have extensive financial backing from the Shanghai Film Group Corp.[2] If they wanted to, it's well within the purview of the CCP to apply pressure to Paramount's ability to finance its films or distribute those fil…

They used to think that economic freedom would be the trojan horse for social freedoms. Quite the opposite I see.

Having been in China around 1983 and recently there are more social freedoms now but still a long way to go.

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Post by point78 »

quotz wrote: post #117
toomanyrichies wrote: post #81

Comedy Central is owned by Viacom, which also owns Paramount Pictures. China is a huge market for Paramount's films. Paramount has previously explored a 49% sale to China's Wanda Group, and they currently have extensive financial backing from the Shanghai Film Group Corp.[2] If they wanted to, it's well within the purview of the CCP to apply pressure to Paramount's ability to finance its films or distribute those fil…

Its scary how much communism is affecting our daily lives, even if we live far away from it...

That not communism, it's dicratorship

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Post by point78 »

dagw wrote: post #173
mac01021 wrote: post #162

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What did Disney do with star wars to pander to asian audiences?

Gave an Asian actress in a minor role "too much" screen time. Apparently.

That entire plot and her in ep 8 was pointless. Obvious pandering

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Post by point78 »

rqs wrote: post #22

I'm not a South Park fan, but that ban got my interested so I watched the episode (Yeah, that episode is banned in China and few "reposter"s has been warned for posting South Park related contents). Few days ago, a guy been sent to jail for 7 days because he was complaining the National Day military parade, saying something like "A civilized nation turn machine into soldier; a rouge nation turn soldier into machine".…

Is there an "underground" in China of people criticising the government and supporting hong kong, tibet, etc? If yes, how many people?

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Post by martin_bech »

ajuc wrote: post #196
Kaiyou wrote: post #193

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Isn't that what communism in practice is? Or are you on the "real communism has never been tried" side of things?

USSR and its sphere of influence was communism in practice. You couldn't create a company, you weren't allowed to do anything for money without state permission (and mostly there was no permission). Prices and number of things produced were decided by the ruling party. It failed almost universally. China today is less "communist" economically than most of EU.

EU today is less “communist” economically than most of the US.

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Post by mAritz »

ahartmetz wrote: post #174
probably_wrong wrote: post #148

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Same in Germany, as it always has been.

But you can watch it in German or English on their official German presence southpark.de.

Sadly, the video quality there isn't quite what I would get from pirated versions - to put it mildly.

And considering that cartoon style videos don't even need much bandwidth for good quality to begin with, this seems really weird.

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Post by giancarlostoro »

jquery wrote: post #133
giancarlostoro wrote: post #58

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Thr 2016 elections season was so darn good. Thats just my opinion as well. It became my favorite. I was never watching South Park like others did as it airs. I think shows like South Park you should have breaks on and then watch an episode or two on Hulu cause over time it does get tiresome. I can binge Family Guy and South Park but a lot gets lost compared to savoring it over time. Watched a lot of classic movies th…

Really? Wasn’t that the season that was a total mess because it was written assuming Hillary would win (which seemed overwhelmingly likely at the time)? And then they had to quickly change everything? If anything I’d say that season was one of their biggest missteps.

I have heard it doesnt take a whole lot of time for them to produce new episodes. Also I thought it parodied everybody pretty well. I didnt get the hint it was going the other direction to be honest. Was the season aired way later or something?
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