The Oct. 12 game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Brooklyn Nets in the Chinese city of Shenzhen might have seemed like business as usual, with thousands of basketball fans out in force for th…
” putting out an episode deeply critical of the Beijing regime and the U.S. — and getting scrubbed from the internet in China as a result.
The country has also just come off its huge 70th anniversary celebrations of the establishment of the People’s Republic, a highly politically sensitive occasion accompanied by heightened censorship. “What Hollywood and other corporations want is for these issues not to come up in the first place,” says Isaac Stone Fish, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan
As the studio with the largest operations by far in China, including theme parks in Shanghai and Hong Kong, Disney is particularly vulnerable to getting caught up in the fray. Disney-owned ESPN has come under fire for reports that the sports powerhouse told its on-air personalities not to discuss the China situation. A source close to ESPN countered that the network instructed hosts to avoid “purely political” conversations about the NBA flap.
But he cautions against exaggerating how China might respond to perceived offenses. “I can’t imagine that action would be taken against an entire studio in response to the words of an anonymous mid-rank executive,” he says. “Viacom as a whole did not get x-ed out because of ‘South Park.’ Paramount movies have received release dates since then.”
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