Censorship in China also affects the Friends reunion, which saw the six protagonists of the popular US sit-com together again. In the Chinese version of the episode, the special guests Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and the K-pop group Bts have disappeared, “cut” from the streaming platforms that broadcast the reunion, and that in the past have, for different reasons, irritated Beijing .
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Also via references considered embarrassing or culturally sensitive, such as those concerning LGBTQ issues. The censorship has irritated fans of the TV series, which is very popular in China, especially among young people between the ages of twenty and thirty, although it is not clear whether it was coordinated from above or left to the discretion of individual platforms, which have made cuts. different.
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Lady Gaga angered China in 2016 for meeting the Dalai Lama, considered a separatist from Beijing, while South Korean band BTS angered Chinese social media users last year over comments on the 1950-1953 Korean War. anti-Chinese. Bieber, on the other hand, was banned from performing in China in 2014 for visiting Tokyo’s Yasukuni temple, which remembers Japanese war dead, including 14 officers convicted of war crimes, and is seen by Beijing and Seoul as symbol of Japan’s militarist past.
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