Friday, June 4, 2021

Microsoft's Search Engine Bing Censors Image Search For Tiananmen Square Massacre 'Tank Man' Even In The US

VICE News: Bing Censors Image Search for 'Tank Man' Even in US 

"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.  

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WNU Editor: This is Microsoft's explanation .... A Microsoft spokesperson told Motherboard in an email that "This is due to an accidental human error and we are actively working to resolve this."

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

They sure have a lot of "humàn errors", must be difficult for "reality based" techies!

Jac said...

Are big tech reliable for America security? They have a strange way when it come to China, even the Department of Defense tell China is our biggest threat.

RussInSoCal said...

That's strange. I usually find results on Bing that google won't go near.

Just tried Tank Man on Bing. Came right up. Bing now seems to be blaming Microsoft for the censoring.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/microsoft-blocks-bing-from-showing-image-results-for-tiananmen-e2-80-98tank-man-e2-80-99/ar-AAKIO3H?ocid=uxbndlbing

Stephen Davenport said...

They sure do have a lot of mistakes and errors when it comes to stuff they want to hide.