China bans Winnie the Pooh

Misfit

Lawful neutral
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/07/17/content-illegal-chinese-censors-clamp-winnie-pooh/
Authorities did not explain the clampdown, but the self-described “bear of very little brain” has been used in the past in a meme comparing him to portly Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Posts bearing the image and the Chinese characters for Winnie the Pooh were still permitted on the Twitter-like Weibo platform Monday.
But comments referencing “Little Bear Winnie” — Pooh’s Chinese name — turned up error messages saying the user could not proceed because “this content is illegal.”

Comparisons between Xi and Pooh first emerged in 2013, after Chinese social media users began circulating a pair of pictures that placed an image of Pooh and his slender tiger friend “Tigger” beside a photograph of Xi walking with then-US President Barack Obama.
 

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PJay

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Yeah, well, they torture dogs before they eat them because it makes the meat taste better, so no surprise there. Sicko people.
 
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