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Bing Censoring All Simplified Chinese Language Queries

Posted by Soulskill on from the boy-that's-a-great-wall dept.

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."

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  1. contrast by Lehk228 · · Score: 5, Funny

    well if their goal was to differentiate from google, i guess "don't be evil" is a good place to stand apart.

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  2. Microsoft has become as evil as Google? by pedantic+bore · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gasp!

    Once we're boycotting all the search engines that have caved into to the demands of the Chinese government, what search engines are left?

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  3. hmmmm by the_other_one · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have been self censoring my bing english language querys.

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  4. JEE by ClosedSource · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Just Enough Evil"?