Sunday, June 06, 2021

This is not an unusual result from Bing

Joseph Cox reports,
"There are no results for tank man," the Bing website reads after searching for the term.
Bing, the search engine owned by Microsoft, is not displaying image results for a search for "Tank man," even when searching from the United States. The apparent censorship comes on the anniversary of China's violent crackdown on protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
"There are no results for tank man," the Bing website reads after searching for the term. "Tank man" relates to the infamous image of a single protester standing in front of a line of Chinese tanks during the crackdown.
China censors and blocks distribution of discussion of tank man and Tiananmen Square more generally. This year, anniversary events in Hong Kong have dwindled in size after authorities banned a vigil.
Read more here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8v9m/bing-censors-tank-man

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