The Boys , a satire nearby a vigilante group trying to take down a cadre of morally injurious superheroes, is one of the most popular original shows on Amazon Prime Video. It’s also vulgar, violent, and swimming in bodily fluids of all kinds, which means that it’s a hard sell in perilous markets. That apparently includes the city-state of Singapore, where AsiaOne reports that Amazon has pulled the show from the Amazon app. If you’re in Singapore, you can no longer watch The Boys.
Amazon has also pulled Invincible, another violent superhero show, in the region. We don’t know precisely why, but we do know that Singapore has a splendid robust history of censorship. The government banned songs like Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl” and Peter, Paul and Mary’s “Puff the Magic Dragon,” to give you an idea of what we’re operational with here. They might not take kindly to the kinds of wild shenanigans they get up to over on The Boys.
It’s an dumb situation that Amazon Prime Video finds itself in, having two hits that have contract popular because of their extreme content, which plays very differently depending on where in the biosphere you are. By way of contrast, Disney goes the opposite route and Conditions to keep its hits as appropriate-for-all-audiences as possible, although they run into plenty of problems too:
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