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This is probably related to Bing not showing results because, as far as I know, DuckDuckGo uses Bing as its underlying search engine. I’ve always chuckled at th

by bmitc 5y ago

This is probably related to Bing not showing results because, as far as I know, DuckDuckGo uses Bing as its underlying search engine. I’ve always chuckled at this from the Apple and Linux users railing against Microsoft but then they use DuckDuckGo. Interestingly, Bing shows plenty of relevant search results for their web results, including images, but doesn’t show results for an image search.

flying_sheep 5y ago
Link to Bing: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tank+man&qs=ds&form=QBIR https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tank+man&qs=ds&form=QBI... This is scary because censorship is reaching to all over the world.
- belter 5y ago
  That deserves a whole page in itself :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_censorship_of_Chinese_issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_censorship_of_Chinese... Although nowadays the bar to be shocked is quite high ..here are some remarkable examples: European Union : "The organisation agreed to censor references to the Chinese origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, with research suggesting that self-censorship on sensitive topics that may offend the PRC is commonplace." NASA: "The American space agency faced criticism in China for listing "Taiwan" as a country in a drop-down menu on a website about Mars." World Health Organization: "Senior advisor Bruce Aylward faced criticism for saying he could not hear a question from RTHK journalist Yvonne Tong about whether Taiwan could join the WHO, asking her to move onto the next question then terminating the interview when she repeated it"
frogpelt 5y ago
But why does Bing filter this?
- bmitc 5y ago
  Who knows. There’s another post/thread on that I believe. My assumption or guess is that Bing operates in China and whatever filter they use there made it to the outside system by accident. But then again, it's still like that now, which is surprising.

by bmitc 5y ago

flying_sheep 5y ago

Link to Bing: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tank+man&qs=ds&form=QBIR https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tank+man&qs=ds&form=QBI... This is scary because censorship is reaching to all over the world.

belter 5y ago
That deserves a whole page in itself :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_censorship_of_Chinese_issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_censorship_of_Chinese... Although nowadays the bar to be shocked is quite high ..here are some remarkable examples: European Union : "The organisation agreed to censor references to the Chinese origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, with research suggesting that self-censorship on sensitive topics that may offend the PRC is commonplace." NASA: "The American space agency faced criticism in China for listing "Taiwan" as a country in a drop-down menu on a website about Mars." World Health Organization: "Senior advisor Bruce Aylward faced criticism for saying he could not hear a question from RTHK journalist Yvonne Tong about whether Taiwan could join the WHO, asking her to move onto the next question then terminating the interview when she repeated it"

frogpelt 5y ago

But why does Bing filter this?

bmitc 5y ago
Who knows. There’s another post/thread on that I believe. My assumption or guess is that Bing operates in China and whatever filter they use there made it to the outside system by accident. But then again, it's still like that now, which is surprising.