It's really interesting that such a bland, un-subversive show whose only mentions of sensitive topics are in bad throwaway jokes is so heavily censored. I guess a more interesting show would just not get aired at all.
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It chops pieces off reality when you do that.
Censorship is amazing. So popular (downvotes anyone?), so casually employed, yet so incredibly destructive.
It's a deeper level of indoctrination. When these things are covertly inserted in an innocuous sounding show, not only will you start thinking about them, you will subconsiously think of them in a tolerant light.
China has its own culture and mores, why should it allow that kind of soft projection of Western power.
Correction: Xi and the CCP have their own culture and mores
The people, though, want to see The Big Bang Theory uncensored.
The people are different from Xi. They don't want the same things as he (except for the ones Xi has successfully brainwashed, or those who have a highly tribal brain).
> why should it allow that kind of soft projection
That sounds paranoid, I hope you don't mind. Reasoning in that way, almost all movies in the world wold be a "soft projection" and Nation State attack. But sometimes it's just jokes or reality and a good movie ... or would have been.