“Boycott Bing”: Content Censorship Row

Search Engine Bing is in hot water with New York Times’ Nick Kristoff, over censorship of content while browsing in Chinese.

Bing, basically has an issue, which they dcalre as a bug, that some content, especially that of the banned practices or ‘cults’ in China. The big issue is that it’s acceptable for search engines to block certain content to users of a country if the country says so, like Google does for many websites for Chinese users – but Bing isn’t just blocking content for people in China. They’re blocking content that China deem unacceptable to any Chinese users worldwide. So if you browse from New York in Chinese, it’ll still block the content that China doesn’t want.

Controversially, Nick Kristoff is asking his users to boycott Bing until they fix this issue.

A statement from Bing assures user it’s a ‘glitch’ and will be fixed.