The new season of the “House of Cards” TV drama, will premiere Friday on Netflix. The highly anticipated drama is unlikely to debut in China, however, due to the Chinese regime’s censorship.
The regime’s press regulator, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film, and Television, made a new rule at the end of last year, requiring the department to preview and censor whole seasons of foreign TV dramas before showing them to Chinese audiences.
In the past, the first and second seasons of “House of Cards” were all shown on the Internet, synchronized with the U.S. show times. But now Chinese audiences will have to wait for the whole new season to finish and be approved by the regime’s regulator before they can watch it, if approved.
