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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. Re:The NYT reporter misses the forest for the tree by smoker2 · · Score: 0, Troll
    You really are so full of shit you actually think you smell good.

    My code is now being used by clients such as Micrsoft, BT and the London Stock Exchange ...

    did they hire you by name after a long and exhaustive search throughout the world, or did a firm you worked for put you on a team that did the work ? Given that the LSE had a massive crash, are we to assume your code wasn't involved ?

    Do you think you could beat MS at software production ? Why do you think the other poster thinks that ? Conflating an organisations abilities with an individuals is playground shite. I think Cadillac make crappy cars, do I need to make better cars in order to have an opinion on the subject ?
    Prick.

  2. Re:Some quasi-scientific experiments by gtbritishskull · · Score: 1, Troll

    I don't see how allowing a COUNTRY'S GOVERNMENT to censor is evil. Whether or not the censorship is ethical is a different question. What if the china turned into a fully legitimate and people mandated democracy and still decided that they wanted the censorship? Should the google that you want still not operate in china? Because, that would be discriminating against a people and a culture, which in America we believe is wrong (or evil?).

    Google is not a political group, it is a company. And, I do not want it to be a political group. A company should not define a people's morality. That should happen from the people through the government. I think google should do everything they can to be open and free, but it is not their job to fight the chinese government.

    Also, how anti-censorship are you? Search for "child pornography" on google images and you don't see any naked 8 year olds. Search "pornography" on google images and you see plenty of naked people. Do I think this is wrong? No. Do you? If not, then your problem is not censorship, but just that YOU THINK china censors too much. Who are you (or the United States in general) to decide for another country what they should and should not censor. What would you think if google refused to do business in the United States because we do not allow gay marriage? While I am in support of gay marriage, I would be pissed off because I would not want any company dictating the US's morality. Open your eyes. Google claims to try not to be evil, not to fix all of the world's problems. Especially since meddling in other countries problems is the road to becoming "evil".