Bing Censoring Chinese Language Search Results For Users In the US

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 11, 2014 @03:04PM from the good-thing-americans-don't-know-foreign-languages dept.

kc123 sends this report from The Guardian: "Microsoft's search engine Bing appears to be censoring information for Chinese language users in the U.S. in the same way it filters results in mainland China. Searches first conducted by anti-censorship campaigners at FreeWeibo, a tool that allows uncensored search of Chinese blogs, found that Bing returns radically different results in the U.S. for English and Chinese language searches on a series of controversial terms. These include Dalai Lama, June 4 incident (how the Chinese refer to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989), Falun Gong and FreeGate, a popular internet workaround for government censorship."

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Oblig Ned Ryerson by binarylarry · 2014-02-11 16:39 · Score: 2, Funny

You don't remember bing?? Because it sure as heckfire remembers you!
BING!
Am I right? Or am I right or am I right?
BING!

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Re:Intentional? by spitzak · 2014-02-11 16:58 · Score: 4, Funny

Google can use the term "bingled!" in their ads maybe