by unnouinceput on 10/8/19, 9:38 AM
Good, good....the more the merrier. Maybe finally the world will stop cuddling with China like they did in past 3 decades and start treating them for what they really are. A tight grip censorship dictatorship that has thrown dust in the world's eyes posing as softies while behind the scenes they amassed a lot of wealth riding West blindness.
by wei_jok on 10/8/19, 8:51 AM
by s3r3nity on 10/8/19, 1:03 PM
I love this in every way.
I'm curious to see if their relationship with Ubisoft gets strained, though, given some recent news with gaming companies trying hard to maintain good relations with China, and because I believe Ubisoft is partly owned by a Chinese company.
(FYI - Ubisoft / Obsidian made the Stick of Truth games, and I believe a mobile game or two with the South Park license.)
by 0xdead on 10/8/19, 3:25 PM
I love how a single episode of a show can piss off the government of a country. Just recently Saudi Arabia banned an episode of "Patriot Act" and now this. Tyrants are really sensitive I guess.
by carapace on 10/8/19, 4:53 PM
I just explained this to my mother, who is 80 and has dementia, and this is what
she said:
"That's silly."
"It's only going to make people around the world watch it."
"A country the size of China with the power that they have and they mess up on a tiny insult."
by tibbydudeza on 10/8/19, 9:15 AM
Awesome response ... love those two ... fortunately they have financial and creative freedom to do what they want.
by onemoresoop on 10/8/19, 5:39 PM
I don't think South Park angered the CCP only with Winnie the Pooh. Southpark can be seen as subversive to authoritarian regimes, the catchy jokes may make the people think outside the reestablished mold.
by liuliu on 10/8/19, 3:50 PM
Interesting. To my knowledge, South Park was never imported into China. Maybe I am outdated, when it is imported to China?
by sebringj on 10/8/19, 5:15 PM
Southpark, NBA, keep going and China will implode with boredom.
by Lapsa on 10/9/19, 1:42 PM
Have noticed Morey guy, Matt, Trey & whatnot. China remains faceless. China this and China that.
by dmitriid on 10/8/19, 10:21 AM
Is it irony that the episode on censorship isn't even available outside of the States?
by neighbour on 10/8/19, 9:58 PM
Once again, Parker and Stone are breaking the mould. Power to them.
by tempodox on 10/9/19, 2:28 PM
So China is censoring the fact that they are censoring.
by fenk85 on 10/8/19, 10:38 AM
by subversionist on 10/8/19, 12:49 PM
Make no mistake, China knows South Park doesn't give a fuck about this.
This is about sending a very clear message to everybody else. You can be as big and well known and South Park, yet be cancelled in one second.
by nutcracker46 on 10/8/19, 8:23 AM
Deleted only from the web controlled by the Peopple's Republic of China. You can still access South Park from the Republic of China and elsewhere.
(Look what I did there: two countries, not one.)
by zarro on 10/8/19, 2:35 PM
I see lots of Anti-China sentiment. I would be very careful here into not falling into the trap of making ourselves China's "Enemy".
China in its current form needs an "Enemy" to survive, without it, it has to deal with difficult questions like "censorship", and in order to survive will need to change - and that's what really scares them.
by sabujp on 10/8/19, 2:19 PM
All the other stuff doesn't matter I guess (nba, hollywood, apple, blizzard, etc)? But since techies love south park for some reason we suddenly care? HN are full of hypocrites. In any case, I need to go rewatch the episode with chinese translations. Watched it on hulu and CC didn't show for the chinese speaking parts :( .