‘Oh, bother’: Chinese censors can’t bear Winnie the Pooh


  • TECH
  • Monday, 17 Jul 2017

In this photo taken on June 6, 2017, a woman and child holding an umbrella with a Winnie the Pooh design enter an underpass in Pyongyang. / AFP PHOTO / Ed JONES

BEIJING: Has Winnie the Pooh done something to anger China’s censors? Some mentions of the lovable but dimwitted bear with a weakness for “hunny” have been blocked on Chinese social networks. 

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. 

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