Why is peppa pig banned

Peppa gloated that her album didn't need listening parties to get a better score than the American rapper. Cheeky piggie! Chosen for You Chosen for You. Most Read Stories Most Read. Advert Why Is Peppa Pig Banned? Politics but, ya know, for kids. One episode of the show was banned by the Australian Broadcasting Company for fear it would encourage children to interact with dangerous spiders. Not even when it involves innocent little Peppa and her brother George.

The innocuous fictional world of Peppa Pig might seem too far removed from our own to become a symbol of unrest, or moral decay in society, but like much media before it, we create it, we consume it, we use it, and we ban it. And what is the world but a messed-up mire of warring politics created by angry grown-ups? Children need to be ready for this wherever they live — welcome to adulthood, kids. Phoebe-Jane Boyd is a freelance journalist who writes on politics and pop culture. In January, the same newspaper said social media users had been circulating "explicit fake versions" of the cartoon online, with references to paedophiles and sexual organs.

On Monday, the paper said the innocent pig "had become an unexpected cultural icon" for a "subculture" of idle youth, "people who run counter to the mainstream value and are usually poorly educated with no stable job, unruly slackers roaming around, and the anti-thesis of the young generation the Party tries to cultivate". Peppa Pig had taken on a subversive hue and subsequently gone viral, illustrating the social psychology of "hunting for novelty and spoofing, which could potentially hamper positive societal morale", the Global Times said.

China's communist rulers have launched a crackdown on content seen as deviating from the central values of socialism or criticising established social norms. Join ST's Telegram channel here and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.

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