Disney Deletes an Episode of The Simpsons to Appease China

Disney’s streaming platform has removed access to an episode of The Simpsons from viewers in Hong Kong.

In the episode from 2005, the Simpsons family travels to China and visits Tienanmen Square. There, a monument and placard reads: “On this site, in 1989, NOTHING HAPPENED.”

The joke is making fun of China’s censorship of the Tienanmen Square Massacre, in which Chinese authorities killed hundreds or possibly thousands of civilians protesting in support of democracy.

While any mention of the Tienanmen Square Massacre is forbidden in mainland China, the Chinese government has only recently began to impose the same censorship on Hong Kong.

But this censorship appears to be entirely voluntary on the part of Disney.

Apparently the money Disney can make from appeasing China is more important than human rights.