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'South Park' gets deleted from Chinese Internet after its recent episode.

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00:00I want to get away from that farm more than anything, but it's not worth living in a world

00:04where China controls my country's art.

00:08I don't care how many people you have.

00:10South Park has been scrubbed from the Chinese internet after an episode of the Comedy Central

00:14show criticized how Hollywood tends to shape its content to avoid offending Chinese government

00:19censors. Now, those very same government censors in the real world have lashed back at South Park

00:24by deleting virtually every clip, episode, and online discussion of the show from Chinese

00:29streaming services, social media, and even fan pages. For example, a search of the Twitter-like

00:34social media service Weibo turns up not a single mention of South Park among the billions of past

00:39posts. And on streaming service Youku, all links to clips, episodes, and even full seasons of the

00:44show are now dead. The response is par for the course for China's authoritarian government,

00:48which has even been known to aggressively censor Winnie the Pooh because some local internet users

00:53had affectionately taken to comparing Chinese President Xi Jinping to the character. On Monday

00:58afternoon, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone issued a statement with a faux apology

01:03about the ban. It reads,

01:04Like the NBA, we welcome the Chinese censors into our homes and into our hearts. We too love money

01:10more than freedom and democracy. Xi doesn't look like Winnie the Pooh at all. Tune in to our 300th

01:14episode on Wednesday at 10 p.m. Long live the great Communist Party of China. May the autumn

01:19sorghum harvest be bountiful. We good now, China?

01:21I want to be proud of who we are, guys. And anybody who would betray their ideals just to make money

01:26in China isn't worth a lick of spit. For more on this story, head to THR.com. Until next time,

01:31for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.