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Kristof calls for a boycott of Bing (relating to Chinese censorship)
- credo 17y agoUnfortunately, all the large companies - Microsoft, Google, Yahoo etc. have demonstrated their willingness to obey censorship commands from the Chinese govt. A few years ago, yahoo, microsoft and google were all criticized for censoring search results. Their defense at the time was that self-censorship was the only way they could operate in China. from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China#Search_engines http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Peop... [Attempting to search for censored keywords in these Chinese search engines will yield few or no results. Google.cn will display the following at the bottom of the page: "According to the local laws, regulations and policies, part of the searching result is not shown."]
- ilkhd2 17y agoWell, it is still better to provide people some access to search engine than none at all. If they would not agree, chinese government would close it altogether.