The ACLU Launches Stop-Motion Civics Series 'KYR-U' on YouTube Kids
4-episode animated educational project is designed to teach children about civics, constitutional rights, and free expression through stories set at a fictional junior high school.
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Rotten Fruit? - Vimeo, Censorship and Creative Freedom
Canadian filmmaker Ivan Li’s animated short, ‘Fruit,’ was permanently removed from the streaming platform – that positions itself as a champion of bold cinema and art - despite endorsements from staff curators, a successful 2-year festival run, and ARTE broadcast in France; the artist hopes his case serves as a warning sign to independent filmmakers.
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Peppa Pig Play Café Launches in China
Hasbro’s hugely popular global kids’ entertainment franchise and animated series character, at one time the center of controversy in the Middle Kingdom, OK’d for commercialization only a few years after facing sweeping bans.
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China Censors ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ By Adding Less Despicable Ending
Instead of the villains getting away scot-free, one gets a prison sentence, and the other a change of heart, courtesy of the film’s new PowerPoint-style still image finale.
Metaverse Musings with Alvin Wang Graylin
HTC’s China President looks forward to the metaverse’s third phase.
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Metaverse = Multiverse
Everything, everywhere, all at once.
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Adult Swim Removes Offensive Episodes of Three Animated Series
Episodes from ‘Aqua Teen Hunger Force,’ ‘The Boondocks,’ and ‘The Shivering Truth’ have quietly disappeared from the network’s library, and are not part of show libraries licensed to HBO Max.
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The Life of a Sibling That Never Was: Siqi Song’s ‘Sister’
An intimate, sober and thoughtful animated short that imagines what a Chinese man’s family life might have been had his mother not been forced to terminate her second pregnancy.
‘Rick & Morty’ Will Stream on HBO Max Starting May 2020
All three seasons of Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon’s hit animated series, currently streaming on Hulu, will join ‘South Park’ for next spring’s launch of WarnerMedia’s new steaming platform.
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HBO Max Snags Exclusive ‘South Park’ Streaming Rights for $500 Million
All 23 Seasons of Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s revered animated comedy, plus three upcoming new seasons, will begin streaming on the new platform in June 2020.
Bidding for ‘South Park’ Streaming Rights Could Reach $500 Million
Multiple media giants said to be in the running for exclusive U.S. streaming rights to Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s wildly popular animated series, now in its 23rd season.
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‘South Park’ Creators Sort of Apologize to China
Trey Parker and Matt Stone tweet seemingly mock ‘mea culpa,’ along with 300th episode promo, in response to show being scrubbed from Chinese Internet.
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China Removes ‘South Park’ from Internet in Response to ‘Band in China’ Episode
Clips, episodes and discussions of the show disappear from Middle Kingdom digital sites after Wednesday’s airing of episode critical of Hollywood’s appeasement of Chinese government.
Mixed Realities in the Middle Kingdom
Observations on China’s VR market.
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Cheer and Loathing in Animation: Episode XLIII - Idiot Tree
Every Friday Chris Robinson unleashes improvised and hastily scribbled cheer or loathing on the animation community to be digested, swallowed or... expelled. Today: Idiocracy, Censorship and Villa Antropoff
Chinese Government Bans ‘Peppa Pig’ in Children’s Book Crackdown
Beloved British book series part of a government crackdown against an influx of Western ideology that also includes the Harry Potter books and Roald Dahl’s ‘James and the Giant Peach.’
The Animation Pimp: A Tale Told by an Idiot
Animation could stand to generate a bit more outrage.
