The Simpsons – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com Tue, 25 May 2021 15:13:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://onvenezuela.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-Screen-Shot-2019-12-20-at-12.31.03-PM-1-32x32.png The Simpsons – Summaries of news and views OnVenezuela https://onvenezuela.com 32 32 ‘The Simpsons’ Got Banned In Venezuela For Being a Bad Influence And Replaced With ‘Baywatch’ https://onvenezuela.com/the-simpsons-got-banned-in-venezuela-for-being-a-bad-influence-and-replaced-with-baywatch/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-simpsons-got-banned-in-venezuela-for-being-a-bad-influence-and-replaced-with-baywatch Tue, 25 May 2021 15:13:18 +0000 https://onvenezuela.com/?p=9371

Venezuelan entertainment has a soft spot for American series, and many of them are dubbed into Spanish and run on Venezuelan networks. For a time, this included The Simpsons, but as Reuters reports, the show was “infringing many things in the television and radio social responsibility law.”  The law in question has been harshly criticized, especially by the Human Rights Watch. That organization points out that a “combination of ill-defined norms and onerous fines would encourage pervasive self-censorship” from television networks fearful of coming up against the law’s stiff penalties. Full Text -> CheatSheet

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