chiirbii 4,760 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 No, that's not a joke headline. Winnie the Pooh is arousing the wrath of socialist censors Beijing. And it's not the first time he's done it. Over the weekend, Chinese censors blocked users of WeChat and Weibo, China's bigger-than-Twitter microblogging platform, from using the name of the most famous resident of the Hundred Acre Wood in the comment section of posts. Posts comparing Chinese president Xi Jinping to the cartoon bear — a longstanding joke in China — were also taken down. Social media users first pointed out a comic likeness between Chinese Premier Xi Jinping and Disney's rendering of A.A. Milne's famous character in 2013. To many, an image of the Xi walking beside U.S. President Barack Obama bore a resemblance to an image of Winne the Pooh walking beside Tigger. Another Pooh-Xi comparison became China’s most censored image of 2015 according to political consultancy Global Risk Insights. Chinese social media users have long relied on euphemisms such as the Pooh-Xi joke to skirt the country's strict censorship system. The latest Pooh ban appears to be part of a larger tightening of state control in the run up to this fall's Communist Party Congress. Various virtual private networks, or VPNs — which can be used to access prohibited sites — have also been banned. http://time.com/4860367/winnie-the-pooh-xi-china-obama-ban/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Acer 396 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 China is a joke.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cian K 1,357 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honeystan 10,291 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 how far do they plan to try to go on controlling what people do? Sometimes a little humor against officials is needed to get your anger out about them without getting extreme. And Pooh is a cute character and the dude's a little pudgy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elseelseelse 1,129 Posted July 17, 2017 Share Posted July 17, 2017 Seems their President is a little bit vain and can't tolerate any mockery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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