Winnie the Pooh - banned in China

[Superman]

https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855

Why China censors banned Winnie the Pooh
By Stephen McDonell BBC News, Beijing

This meme showing Xi Jinping and former US President Barack Obama began circulating in 2013

The blocking of Winnie the Pooh might seem like a bizarre move by the Chinese authorities but it is part of a struggle to restrict clever bloggers from getting around their country's censorship.

When is a set of wrist watches not just a set of wrist watches? When is a river crab not just a river crab? Inside the Great Firewall of China of course.

Winnie the Pooh has joined a line of crazy, funny internet references to China's top leaders.

The Chinese name for and images of the plump, cute cartoon character are being blocked on social media sites here because bloggers have been comparing him to China's president.

When Xi Jinping and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe endured one of the more awkward handshakes in history netizens responded with Winnie the Pooh and Eeyore shaking hands.

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[xjx]

Xi may be a bear, but Obama is no tiger.

 

[Badcat]

Obama is more like Rabbit...grumpy, stingy, and opinionated. .

 

[BLITZ]

I get it. a bear that walks around with a half short. no pants, hangs out with a donkey that has his tail held together with a clothes pin. ******* weird.

 

[deljzc]

The democrats want to censor us like that as well. They're just disguising it as "hate speech" and threatening the big tech firms (Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon) to do it for them to get around the Constitution. It's coming folks. The greatest threat to democracy in the next 25 years is control of speech on the internet.

 

[mightyguru]

Straight up shirt-cocking it like a boss.