John Oliver's hot take on Samsung wasn't shown in India for some reason

India's on-demand streaming service Hotstar, which bills itself as a no-censorship platform, edited out a segment from the Last Week Tonight show this week. 

The show, hosted by John Oliver, had a segment about various Samsung products catching fire, a play on the unfortunate past few months that Samsung has had over the infamous Galaxy Note7 bursting into flames and some of its washing machines blowing up as well. 

People who watched the show on Hotstar (the only available service that has license to air full episodes of the show in India), however, couldn’t catch the skit.  Read more...