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Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: invflatspin on August 06, 2018, 06:03:41 AM

Title: Pooh bear censored in China
Post by: invflatspin on August 06, 2018, 06:03:41 AM

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45083944

This goes hand in hand with that 1st amendment thread. Quite sad the freedom we often take for granted. Imagine anyone in US govt restricting ANY film in the US, much less a Disney movie about a kid now grown up and his friend the bear(and Tigger too!).

Title: Re: Pooh bear censored in China
Post by: Steingar on August 06, 2018, 11:12:02 AM

A lot of Chinese have likened Poo Bear to Xi Jinping, China's new strongman dictator for life.

Title: Re: Pooh bear censored in China
Post by: invflatspin on August 06, 2018, 11:23:19 AM

I know. This is suitable justification for censoring a movie?

Title: Re: Pooh bear censored in China
Post by: Becky (My pronouns are Assigned/By/God) on August 07, 2018, 11:13:20 AM

Makes me glad to live in a country where the severed head of its president, in effigy, can be waved around on mass media with impunity.

Title: Re: Pooh bear censored in China
Post by: Username on August 07, 2018, 12:13:58 PM

Quote from: Becky on August 07, 2018, 11:13:20 AM

Makes me glad to live in a country where the severed head of its president, in effigy, can be waved around on mass media with impunity.

Depending greatly on the race of the head and political leanings of the waver.

Title: Re: Pooh bear censored in China
Post by: Little Joe on August 09, 2018, 12:20:28 PM

Quote from: Becky on August 07, 2018, 11:13:20 AM

Makes me glad to live in a country where the severed head of its president, in effigy, can be waved around on mass media with impunity.

That only works if the head belongs to a Conservative.  Bonus points awarded if it is Trump.
Wouldn't be accepted if it were Obama or Hillary.