Attorney-General William Barr takes aim at Hollywood, Disney for censoring films to appease China

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Attorney-General Barr takes aim at Hollywood, Disney for censoring films to appease China

WASHINGTON - US Attorney-General William Barr took aim at Hollywood companies, including Walt Disney Co on Thursday , saying they have routinely caved into pressure and censored their films"to appease the Chinese Communist Party".

"I suspect Walt Disney would be disheartened to see how the company he founded deals with the foreign dictatorships of our day," Mr Barr said in a speech at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum.

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