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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Report: Bing censoring Chinese language search
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Report: Bing censoring Chinese language search results for users in the US
http://j.mp/1m4Epns (Guardian)
"Microsoft's search engine Bing appears to be censoring information for
Chinese language users in the US 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 US 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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