It’s not the first time Disney’s landed under hot water for its apparent willingness to comply with China’s censorship laws.
’ request for comment.It’s far from the first China-related controversy clouding over Disney, which is among the many American multinational corporations relying upon the country for a sizable chunk of its business. Disney+episode from Disney+ in Hong Kong because it referenced the Tiananmen Square massacre .
The removal was a “clear signal to the local audience that it will remove controversial programs in order to please” the Chinese government, Grace Leung, a media policy professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong,at the time. And Disney found itself in a far greater firestorm upon the 2020 release of the live-action remake of, after the film included “special thanks” to Xinjiang authorities in the post-film credits.