Disney’s Hong Kong Service Omits ‘The Simpsons’ Episode With China ’Forced Labor' Reference

A mobile phone displaying the Disney Plus streaming service in Hong Kong shows a list of episodes of popular U.S. cartoon series "The Simpsons," with episode 12 of season 16 missing from the list, on Nov. 29, 2021. Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images

Disney appears to have removed from its streaming service in Hong Kong an episode of “The Simpsons” cartoon that referenced “forced labor camps” in China, the second time in three years that Disney has done so.

The episode “One Angry Lisa,” which first aired on television last October, was inaccessible on the U.S-based Disney Plus streaming service in Hong Kong. The Financial Times was the first to report the news on Feb. 6