AFAIK, it started as overzealous Chinese internet censors taking down posts/memes made by Chinese netizens comparing Xi to Pooh. Western media eventually picked up the story and then due to sinophobia, propaganda and a bit of misunderstanding, redditors wound up turning the story into the Chinese government banning Pooh because Xi was personally offended or something like that.
The big one was a kid having his exit visa revoked for posting anti-china memes while studying in America. He had to go home and spent I think 10 months (?) in either jail or house arrest (or as the western media calls it: "welded into his home").
One of the posts was a Winnie the Pooh meme, so of course they run with it.
How did the "Winnie The Pooh is banned" canard get started anyway?
AFAIK, it started as overzealous Chinese internet censors taking down posts/memes made by Chinese netizens comparing Xi to Pooh. Western media eventually picked up the story and then due to sinophobia, propaganda and a bit of misunderstanding, redditors wound up turning the story into the Chinese government banning Pooh because Xi was personally offended or something like that.
The big one was a kid having his exit visa revoked for posting anti-china memes while studying in America. He had to go home and spent I think 10 months (?) in either jail or house arrest (or as the western media calls it: "welded into his home").
One of the posts was a Winnie the Pooh meme, so of course they run with it.
redditors really do like to imagine Xi Jinping as some childish thin-skinned lunatic who has a big button he presses labeled "I'm offended"
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