Banned in China

[Logue 1st MRB]

This image has just been banned in China. It can crash on our couch.

[Takel 1st MRB]

whhaaaaaat?

[Cutts]

Presumably they don't like their General Secretary to be compared to a notoriously air-headed cartoon character.

While I'm all in favor of freedom of speech its not like any coherent political point has been made here, so I guess they figured it was just pointlessly disrespectful and banned it.

[T. Brown 1st MRB]

Sounds about right. I visited China in the '90s and after taking pictures in Haidong of some protesting Tibetan monks, I was approached by police who asked that I remove the pictures. I pretended to. I still have those somewhere, but they were so unimpressive I never bothered keeping track of them. I think the Chinese officials figure the more they restrict, even that which is asinine, the less that will slip through of importance.

[Logue 1st MRB]

Yeah considering the picture was made by the Chinese and became a viral hit on the sina-net, somemillionbodies over there found it funny.

And I think the gag was just how identical the pictures appear to be. Sometimes a cigar is just a penis wrapped in tobacco leaves.