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New Report: OpenNet Initiative Investigates Filtering of Microsoftâs Bing in Arab Countries
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/04/new-report-opennet-initiative-investigates-filtering-of-microsofts-bing-in-arab-countries/
Sex, Social Mores, and Keyword Filtering: Microsoft Bing in the "Arabian Countries"
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| It is unclear, however, whether Bingâs
| keyword filtering in the Arab countries is
| an initiative from Microsoft, or whether
| any or all of the Arab states have asked
| Microsoft to comply with local censorship
| practices or laws.
|
| [...]
|
| Microsoftâs declared aim from this type of
| censorship is to filter out âresults that
| might return adult content.â However,
| filtering at the keyword level results in
| overblocking, as banning the use of
| certain keywords to search for Web sites,
| not just images, prevents users from
| accessingâbased on Microsoftâs definition
| of objectionable contentâlegitimate
| content such as sex education and
| encyclopedic information about
| homosexuality.
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http://opennet.net/sex-social-mores-and-keyword-filtering-microsoft-bing-arabian-countries
Where Microsoft Censors Bing For "Sex"
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| Microsoft, unlike Google, never said that
| it wouldn't be evil. So when it comes to
| censorship of its search engine Bing, it
| should come as no surprise that the
| company is much more willing than Google
| to block content rather than risk
| upsetting censorious governments around
| the world.
|
| That doesn't just apply to China, where
| Google says it plans to stop filtering
| search results.
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http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/03/05/where-microsoft-censors-bing-for-sex/
Recent:
Microsoft Claims It Fixed Bing's Chinese Search 'Bug'
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| Microsoft claims it fixed a controversial
| "bug" that made Bing Image Search deliver
| uniformly pro-Chinese-government results
| to politically sensitive queries inputted
| in Simplified Chinese.
|
| Bing came under fire on Nov. 20 from New
| York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who
| accused Microsoft of "craven kowtowing" to
| the Chinese government by offering
| "sanitized pro-Communist results" in
| response to Bing searches in Simplified
| Chinese for terms such as "Tiananmen" and
| "Dalai Lama."
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsoft-Claims-It-Fixed-Bings-Chinese-Search-Bug-350985/
Microsoft Talks China Outsourcing
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| Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) has outsourced more
| than $100 million of business to China in
| 2009, qq.com reported December 3 citing Wang
| Ying, Senior Director of Microsoft China R&D
| Group's China Outsourcing Center.
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http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=11588757
Boycott Microsoft Bing
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| If you search a term on Bing that is
| politically sensitive in China, in English
| the results are legitimate. Search
| âTiananmenâ and youâll find out about the
| army firing on pro-democracy protesters in
| 1989. Search Dalai Lama, Falun Gong and you
| also get credible results. Conduct the
| search in complex Chinese characters (the
| kind used in Taiwan and Hong Kong) and on
| the whole you still get authentic results.
|
| But conduct the search with the simplified
| characters used in mainland China, then you
| get sanitized pro-Communist results. This is
| especially true of image searches. Magic! No
| Tiananmen Square massacre. The Dalai Lama
| becomes an oppressor. Falun Gong believers
| are villains, not victims.
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http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/boycott-microsoft-bing/
NYT's Kristof: Boycott Bing
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| Kristof's objection, outlined in a blog post
| this afternoon, centers around his
| observation that searches conducted using
| simplified Chinese characters in Bing return
| "sanitized pro-Communist results" not just
| in China but around the world. He questions
| Microsoft's claim that the results are
| determined by search algorithms, not its
| corporate policy. Here's an excerpt from his
| post.
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http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2009/11/nyts_kristof_calls_for_bing_boycott.html
Bing Censoring All Simplified Chinese Language Queries
http://search.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0158213/Bing-Censoring-All-Simplified-Chinese-Language-Queries
Bing Search Tainted by Pro-Microsoft Results
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| The first of the search results about the Microsoft Word question linked to a
| page about how expensive Manhattan is (Is Microsoft competing with Manhattan
| now?). The top responses to the "Is Microsoft Evil?" question were, get this,
| a link to a New York Times story about whether or not Google is considered
| evil, a link about proxy servers, and a link to a story about Microsoft being
| charitable. Wow.
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http://advice.cio.com/shane_oneill/bing_search_tainted_by_pro_microsoft_results
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