Friday, November 20, 2009

Microsoft Bing Censors Worldwide for China

Not that we need more convincing that Microsoft is run by a bunch of pragmatic douchebags, but...


Boycott Microsoft Bing

By NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Microsoft apparently doesn’t want to pursue the Google solution of having separate sites – one that produces generally legitimate results (google.com) and another within China that blatantly censors (google.cn). Instead, Bing figured it would have one site and just censor all the results in simplified Chinese characters. It then compounded the problem by dissembling and disguising its policy. That’s craven and embarrassing, it betrays the integrity of Microsoft searches, and for me it’s a reason to boycott Bing.

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