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But I remember it! (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 week ago (23 children)

The episode was also omitted from the streaming service Disney+.[51] The Slate journalist Isaac Butler criticized the removal as "an offense against art and the medium of television, and part of a growing trend of corporations using their consolidated power and the death of physical media to do damage control by destroying works by troublesome artists".

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Essentially corporate censorship for fear of maybe offending someone.

[+] [email protected] -15 points 1 week ago (7 children)

This is a decades old story.

The show runners themselves pulled the episode because the thought of Jackson using The Simpsons to get to kids was "icky" to put it lightly.

Calling it corporate censorship, is just bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Not even remotely true. Disney pulled the episode in March 2019 after the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland premiered.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doesn't change the fact it was the production staff of the Simpsons that pulled the episode. Not Disney,

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Correct. We don't need to make stuff up to hate Disney, there's plenty enough to hate already

Brooks told The Wall Street Journal: "This was a treasured episode. There are a lot of great memories we have wrapped up in that one, and this certainly doesn't allow them to remain. I'm against book-burning of any kind. But this is our book, and we're allowed to take out a chapter."

Death of the author, Brooks. You don't get to tear a page out of an already published book.

That said, Disney's decision not to show that episode is a separate one. Both parties suck tbh

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

parties suck tbh

I hope to fuck you're including the pedophile in that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

? I'm talking about the production staff and Disney, both of whom independently decided to toss the episode in the memory hole