Microsoft-owned search engine Bing is targeting politically sensitive Chinese names for censorship in the United States, according to research.
Citizen Lab, a cyber research center at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, found that the censorship applied to Bing’s autosuggestion feature. Moreover, it impacts not only Bing but also the Windows Start menu search and DuckDuckGo, which share this same feature.
“We consistently found that Bing censors politically sensitive Chinese names over time, that their censorship spans multiple Chinese political topics, [and] consists of at least two languages, English and Chinese,” Citizen Lab stated in the report released on May 19….