https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/south-park-brutally-mocks-disney-and-googles-business-dealings-with-china/
This week's episode (https://forums.primetimer.com/topic/9272-south-park/page/24/#comments) called out Western companies that South Park accuses of compromising their moral integrity for Chinese money.
NBA executive's tweet starts firestorm in China -- days after South Park called the NBA out for compromising its integrity for China (https://twitter.com/sethpo/status/1180987669112872961)
The Comedy Central show called out Google, Disney and the NBA (https://www.mediaite.com/entertainment/south-park-brutally-mocks-disney-and-googles-business-dealings-with-china/) last Wednesday, accusing them of compromising their moral integrity for Chinese money. Days later, Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey tweeted, "Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong," which upset the Chinese government (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/06/sports/daryl-morey-rockets-china.html) and resulted in Chinese businesses cutting ties with the Rockets. Morey deleted the tweet and expressed regret, while the NBA said his tweet “deeply offended many of our friends and fans in China, which is regrettable.”
Chinese government bans all South Park content in response to "Band in China" episode (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/south-park-banned-chinese-internet-critical-episode-1245783)
Chinese officials have deleted all clips, episodes and online discussions of South Park after last week's episode went after American companies Google, Disney and the NBA, accusing them of sacrificing their morality for Chinese dollars. "A cursory perusal through China's highly regulated Internet landscape shows the show conspicuously absent everywhere it recently had a presence," reports The Hollywood Reporter's Patrick Brzeski. "A search of the Twitter-like social media service Weibo turns up not a single mention of South Park among the billions of past posts. On streaming service Youku, owned by Internet giant Alibaba, all links to clips, episodes and even full seasons of the show are now dead. And on Baidu's Tieba, China's largest online discussions platform, the threads and sub-threads related to South Park are nonfunctional. If users manually type in the URL for what was formerly the South Park thread, a message appears saying that, 'According to the relevant law and regulation, this section is temporarily not open.'" The move comes as the NBA is embroiled in a controversy over Houston Rockets general manager Bryan Morey tweeting his support for Hong Kong protesters.
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UPDATE: Trey Parker and Matt Stone have released an "apology" to the Chinese government (https://twitter.com/SouthPark/status/1181273539799736320): "Like the NBA, we welcome the Chinese censors into our homes and into our hearts," they said in a statement. "We too love money more than freedom and democracy. Xi doesn't look like Winnie the Poo at all. Tune into our 300th episode the Wednesday at 10 p.m. Long live the great Communist Party of China. May the autumn's sorghum harvest be bountiful. We good now China?"
South Park's 300th episode takes on anti-vaxxers. (https://www.thewrap.com/cartman-is-an-anti-vaxxer-so-he-doesnt-become-artistic-in-south-park-300th-episode-video/)
South Park says "F*** the Chinese government" in its first episode after it was banned in China (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/south-park-leans-controversy-f-chinese-government-1246728)
Trey Parker and Matt Stone marked their 300th episode by responding to being banned in China over last week's "Band in China" episode.
South Park's "Band in China" episode screened on the streets of Hong Kong (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/south-park-notorious-china-episode-screened-streets-hong-kong-1246561)
Trey Parker and Matt Stone have become celebrated among Hong Kong protesters in response to last week's "Band in China" episode that accused American companies of kowtowing to the Chinese government. The episode has been posted online for free (https://twitter.com/SouthPark/status/1182260808421535744). Pictures shared on Twitter showed an apparent impromptu screening of the South Park episode on a projector screen in Hong Kong's Sham Shui Po district. "Tonight in Sham Shui Po, @SouthPark episode ‘Band in China’ shown on street to large & appreciative audience. Street cinema’s been yet another important facet of #HK protests, w ‘Winter on Fire’ on Ukraine’s revolution & ‘1987: When the Day Comes’ on Korea’s esp popular," tweeted (https://twitter.com/KongTsungGan/status/1181586865188507648) journalist and author Kong Tsung-gan. The Chinese government responded to the episode by banning all South Park content. It's unclear who organized the screening since the Hong Kong protests have been deliberately leaderless to protect participants from the Chinese government. ALSO: DJ Zedd says he's been permanently banned in China for liking a South Park tweet (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7561625/DJ-Zedd-says-hes-banned-China-liking-tweet-South-Park.html).