Disney Plus blocks kids from watching movies with racist stereotypes

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Kids won't exist able to watch The Jungle Volume or Lady and the Tramp on Disney Plus at present, without the intervention of their adult guardians. Disney Plus has quietly blocked kid profiles from accessing content that runs with an advisory on racist depictions.

Last October, Disney launched its "Stories Matter" initiative, which added advisories to movies with "negative depictions or mistreatment of people or cultures." With this move, first noticed by Polygon, Disney Plus goes even farther by restricting kids nether seven from searching for or watching any films with those advisories, including Dumbo, Peter Pan, Aristocats and Swiss Family Robinson.

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Regular Disney Plus profiles tin still search for and play those movies, which are preceded by the unskippable message: "This programme includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong at present. Rather than remove this content, we want to acknowledge its harmful impact, learn from it and spark conversation to create a more inclusive hereafter together."

Disney did not denote the change, but it'southward clear that the visitor intends for parents to oversee their children'due south viewing and contextualize the racist tropes and stereotypes found in some of their library titles. Parents or guardians can get more info on from the Stories Matter site, which is highlighted in the advisories.

This isn't the only step Disney is taking to accost racism. The company is also redoing the Splash Mountain and Jungle Cruise rides at its theme parks to remove racist iconography.

When the Stories Matter program launched, Disney said, "we tin can't change the past, but nosotros can acknowledge it, learn from it and move forward together to create a tomorrow that today can just dream of."

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Kelly is a senior writer covering streaming media for Tom's Guide, and then basically, she watches TV for a living. Previously, she was a freelance entertainment author for Yahoo, Vulture, Television receiver Guide and other outlets. When she's not watching Goggle box and movies for work, she's watching them for fun, seeing alive music, writing songs, knitting and gardening.