1.18.2010

China censor's target of the week: 'Avatar'.



Oy vey. Avatar gets yanked from Mainland China's screens because the government thinks all the folks displaced by various development projects will draw parallels with the movie's blue people, leading to massive unrest and the Communist Party's downfall. Replacing the James Cameron hit will be a patriotic movie about Confucius, the man who taught the good Chinese people of the world to know their place. This sucks, China. And the freedom to write about the suckiness is one major reason why I'm glad I don't live there anymore.