Spanish television will not air "Dragon Ball" due to "Anti-descrimination" laws 2r4iq
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Dragon Ball has officially been rejected from broadcast by a television channel in Spain’s Valencia region, with a representative for the channel explaining that the decision had been made been in consideration of local gender legislation that prohibits the airing of “content that encourages gender discrimination through stereotypes and sexist roles”.
Earlier this month, following a vocal fan campaign requesting that the requesting that the government-owned television channel À Punt air the series, Valencia Deputy of Compromís Mónica Àlvaro asked whether “the General Directorate of the Sociedad Anónima de Medios de Comunicación [planned] to incorporate into the regional channel À Punt the drawings of Bola de Drac in Valencia?”
On March 23rd, Àlvaro received an answer to her query, as À Punt Mèdia General Management Alfred Costa informed the Valencian Radio and Television Commission that the channel would not broadcast Dragon Ball due to both the the series’ high cost of licensing and the region’s regulations regarding gender equality in children’s programming.
According to Article 5 of Law 6/2016 of the Generalitat Valenciana, the region’s governing institution, television networks must “adopt, through self-regulation, codes of conduct aimed at transmitting the principle of equality excluding sexist content , especially in children’s and youth programming.”
