China’s AI chatbot, Ernie Bot, banned users who ask it about President Xi Jinping’s relation to Winnie the Pooh. The crop top-wearing bear was banned from China’s social media in 2017. SOPA ...

Winnie the Pooh is arousing the wrath of socialist censors Beijing. ... Another Pooh-Xi comparison became China’s most censored image of 2015 according to political consultancy Global Risk Insights.

Winnie the Pooh had to grin and bear it after being banned from central Madrid while Chinese President Xi Jinping drove by, according to a report. A street performer who dresses up as the honey-hun… ...

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(CBS) – Beloved book and animated cartoon character Winnie the Pooh is being censored in China, according to BBC News. The Chinese name for Winnie the Pooh (Little Bear Winnie) is being blocked ...

Winnie-the-Pooh, the beloved children ... The reasons for China's Pooh ban remain unclear, the ... Memes pairing Pooh with Xi first cropped up in 2013 after Xi took a stroll beside former ...

Chinese censors have banned a picture of Winnie the Pooh and his friend Tigger. The censors did not like the fact that the cell from a Disney cartoon was attached to the photo of Chinese President ...

Winnie-the Pooh has found himself engulfed in controversy far beyond the confines of the Hundred Acre Wood, this time seemingly due to his resemblance to Chinese president Xi Jinping. Pooh’s ...

Rumors of China banning Winnie the Pooh are not new. In July 2017, it was widely reported in the Western media that China had been censoring internet memes in which the endearing bear was compared ...

China’s Censors Ban Winnie the Pooh and the Letter ‘N’ After Xi’s Power Grab. BEIJING — Liu Jin, a 27-year-old teacher in central China, is the kind of young nationalist that President ...

In one, Xi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are compared to Pooh and Eeyore after what the internet saw as a disastrous attempt to shake hands in 2014. In another, President Barack Obama is ...