Winnie the Pooh , the adorable cartoon bear with an obsession for dearest , has been censor in China . It ’s all apparently due to a meme that hit fun of President Xi Jinping .
Specifically , social media credit and images of Winnie the Pooh have been close up in the country , according tothe Guardian . spine of the sensationalistic bear have also been banned from WeChat ’s official sticker heading .
However , posts with the range of Winnie the Pooh were still tolerate on the Weibo societal mass medium platform as of Monday . And GIFs were still available .
Chinesegovernment block meme that compares Xi Jinping to Winnie the Pooh and#Obamato#Tiger!pic.twitter.com / HsP0RQ03DA
— Alfredo Medellín ( @AlfredoMedelln)June 16 , 2013
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President Xi has been compared to Pooh since 2013 , the Guardian notes , after Chinese social media start share a photo of Pooh and Tiger walk along side each other , right next to a pic of Xi walking with President Barack Obama .
In 2014 , a exposure of Pooh gripping the hoof of his Equus asinus ally Eeyore was compare to a photo of Xi rock hand with Japan ’s prime minister , Shinzo Abe .
Xi was once again compare to Pooh in 2015 , when a picture of him standing up through the cap of a parade gondola was paired with an trope of Winnie the Pooh on a toy car . It was “ China ’s most censored pic ” of the yr , harmonise to The Guardian .
China is known for its strict internet censoring jurisprudence , specially when it arrive to meme poke fun at authority . Last twelvemonth , the Taiwanese government blocked searches for“Fatty Kim the Third”(a widely - used phrase referring to the weight of Kim Jong Un , his father , and grandfather ) at North Korea ’s postulation , so it would n’t move around up any results .
[ The Guardian ]
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