Posted on 05/20/2022 7:15:37 AM PDT by Salman
Microsoft search engine Bing censors terms deemed sensitive in China from its autosuggestion feature internationally, according to research from Citizen Lab.
The University of Toronto research organization analyzed the search engine's autosuggestion system for censorship of nearly 100,000 names in the United States, Canada and China in both English letters and Chinese characters. Testing was done by modifying region settings, language setting and IP address geolocation.
Microsoft responded to a notification from Citizen Lab, and called [PDF] the lack of autofill terms a "technical error" and said they'd resolved the issue.
The Citizen Lab group claims it found that censored individuals primarily related to Chinese political sensitivity when the word was written in Chinese characters, or names falling under an umbrella that the group termed "eroticism" if searched in English letters.
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Wouldn’t a nuclear explosion kill all the germs and viruses in the lab?
I guess we can no longer say “There is a chink in his armor.” There might be a Chinese guy in it.
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