The United States bows to no one, including China! For Hollywood studios to censor films in order to please Chinese Communist officials is absurd. This is not a country where censorship is welcomed.
Now Senator Ted Cruz is calling for a zero-tolerance policy for those studios, and proposed a new bill that will block any and all federal assistance to the studios behind film productions that practice censorship.
Cruz said that China is “the single most dangerous geopolitical threat” in the world on Thursday.
Breitbart reports:
Chinese officials want “to shape what Americans see, hear, and ultimately think,” Cruz said. Because Hollywood studios voluntarily change characters and plot points in order to gain access to the Chinese market, Chinese officials “control not just what audiences see in China but also what Americans see.”
In a bill he introduced Thursday, Sen. Cruz (R-Texas) is calling for Congress to cut off Hollywood studios from the federal assistance they receive if those studios censor their films for screening in China.
The senator had previously called for the elimination of Pentagon assistance to studios that cooperate with Chinese censors. But the version of the SCRIPT Act that he unveiled Thursday goes even further by suspending all federal assistance. Movie productions often request access to federal property and military equipment for filming purposes.
The SCRIPT Act, Stopping Censorship, Restoring Integrity, Protecting Talkies Act, will definitely go head on with major Hollywood studios because their films ofte depend on China to make money.
Sen. Cruz noted a few recent examples of Hollywood’s voluntary self-censorship, including Paramount’s upcoming Top Gun: Maverick, which eliminated the Taiwanese and Japanese flags from Tom Cruise’s iconic flight jacket . The sequel is a co-production with China’s Tencent Pictures.
“What message does it send that Maverick, an American icon, is apparently afraid of the Chinese communists? That’s ridiculous,” Cruz declared.
The Disney-owned 20th Century removed all references to Freddie Mercury’s sexuality in Bohemian Rhapsody in order to gain access to Chinese cinemas. Disney also cast Scottish actress Tilda Swinton in a role that was originally meant to be a Tibetan monk in Marvel’s Doctor Strange.
Sen. Cruz said that he wants the SCRIPT Act to serve as a “wake up call for Hollywood.”
“Studios would be forced to choose between the assistance from the federal government or the money that they want from China,” he added.
In addition, Cruz also introduced two more articles of legislation on Thursday to eliminate the Communist country's influence in the United States.
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