“Simpsons” Banned in Venezuela

According to the Times of London:

He is a garish shade of yellow, a menace to his teachers, a constant source of anguish for his family . . . and now deemed likely to corrupt the children of Venezuela, which has banished Bart Simpson and co from the airwaves.

“It had to be taken off,” a spokeswoman for Televen, a private television station, said of The Simpsons, after receiving an order from the National Telecommunications Commission. “They consider it to be a series that isn’t appropriate for that time, because it isn’t appropriate for children.”

Televen’s choice of replacement for the 11am slot might not be welcomed by the authorities either. In an effort to maintain ratings, it will broadcast Baywatch Hawaii, the 1990s show featuring a cast of swimsuit-clad women and muscle-bound lifeguards that a group of British mothers once condemned as soft porn.

The regulator, which claimed to have received complaints from viewers, did not specify which parts of Los Simpson were deemed offensive. However, it argued that broadcasting the cartoon series at that hour could constitute an infringement of rules banning any “messages that act against the education of boys, girls and adolescents”.

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