XI IS MAKING XISELF RIDICULOUS: Chinese fans of ‘Friends’ angry after show re-released with censorship.

In recent years, China has shut tens of thousands of websites and social media accounts that contained what it said was illegal content as well as “vulgar” and pornographic material.

“I resolutely boycott the castrated version of ‘Friends’,” said one user on China’s Twitter-like Weibo.

“This is a defiling a classic,” said another.

A third user said “if you can’t show the complete version under the current atmosphere, then don’t import it.”

Xi won’t like merely being thought of as “the current atmosphere.” Plus:

The discussion was a “hot search topic” on Weibo on Sunday.

But in a sign the discussion itself may have caught the attention of censors, searches on Weibo on Sunday for several variations on the hashtag or search term #Friendshasbeencensored produced either zero or limited recent results.

Gosh, China’s starting to act like the U.S. . . .