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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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Business Headline News

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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Say it Ain’t So Joe Headline News

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.

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Alibaba Blogs

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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Cultural Sensitivities Headline News

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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animated short films ANIMATIONWorld

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.

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SVOD Headline News

‘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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SVOD Headline News

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.

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SVOD ANIMATIONWorld

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 23^rd season.

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South Park Headline News

‘South Park’ Creators Sort of Apologize to China

Trey Parker and Matt Stone tweet seemingly mock ‘mea culpa,’ along with 300^th episode promo, in response to show being scrubbed from Chinese Internet.

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South Park Headline News

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.

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AI Blogs

Mixed Realities in the Middle Kingdom

Observations on China’s VR market.

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Opinion ANIMATIONWorld

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

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China Headline News

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.’

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