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Bing Censoring All Simplified Chinese Language Queries
boggis writes "Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times journalist, is calling for a boycott of Microsoft's Bing. They have censored search requests at the request of the Chinese Government (like certain others). The difference is that Bing has censored all searches done anywhere in simplified Chinese characters (the characters used in mainland China). This means that a Chinese speaker searching for Tiananmen anywhere in the world now gets the impression that it is just a lovely place to visit."
Google is an innovative technology company, Microsoft are a bunch of clowns with an innovative and sometimes illegal marketing strategy.
Nice joke. Google finds new ways to display ads and create half baked "free" web sites (most of the time they just buy other companies) with limited features. Google Wave is the buggiest piece of shit website that I've ever used. Microsoft creates enterprise, production ready tools that 90% of the world uses. And as much as trolls like you would like to think otherwise quite a few of them actually choose to use Microsoft products. What 'innovative' tools has google released? google talk? picasa? LOL. Wake me up when they design their own kernel or write their own ide or office suite from scratch. Oh wait, thats right. They don't need to. The found a way to make the linux 'useful-idiots' devs do their work for them so they can steal it. How "innovative".
From my perspective Google is the clown trying to mine users data to "innovate" and show ads. Hell they even started 'innovating' and inserting ads into bloody youtube videos now. Comparing Microsoft Research with Google is a bloody joke. MSR is lightyears ahead. But hey, thats the view you come to when you have a mental model that agrees with reality. Too bad you don't.
But apart from all that, Its entertaining to see anti-ms trolls. So, please don't stop! I always get a good laugh. I always imagine this guy http://imgur.com/f4orN.jpg steaming from his ears and furiously typing anti-ms FUD.
This is the internet. Censorship is wrong. Stop being a fucking child microsoft, and start being a human being. Hell, children have a better sense of freedom than you. Just google the kid that refuses to pledge allegiance to the flag in his elementary school, and his reasons why...
Microsoft... BE AN AMERICAN COMPANY, OR GET THE FUCK OUT.
Google are another group of ass hats. Google, better start acting like an American company and stand for something.
Oh but they need the chinese market.... boo hoo.
BRING THE CHINESE freedom of information... not cow tow to them and insult all of us who believe in it dearly.
This means that Bing censors at the request of the American government.
THIS MEANS THAT.... Bing does not stand up for freedom of information. This means.... The millions that fought and died in all of our key American wars, have died for nothing! This means that Microsoft has benefited from their sacrafices, and stands on their dead bodies with greed, and no appreciation at all.
FUCK YOU corporate America for selling us out for slave wages, censorship, and greed at the cost of our American ideals.
Google, you're just as lame for backing down to China.