Bing censors dirty words
p2pnet view Freedom | P2P:- “50 years ago boys (let’s face it — they’ll be doing most of the searching) used libraries and medical books (or porn mags found under big brother’s beds) to satisfy their natural curiosity.
“In the 21st digital century, they use the net and given that most of them are far more technically adept than their parents, finding feelthy pictures is no big deal.
“Bing dishes up porn on a silver platter. Moreover, its search functions are far more efficient than Google’s.”
The sentences above are clipped from p2pnet’s post on the fact it’s child’s play — literally – for anyone to turn off the anti-porn youngster protection (presumably) function in the image search part of Bing, Microsoft’s answer to Google.
But a January test of a Bing version “tailored for users in Arab countries” showed it “filtered Arab and English words for sexually explicit content”, says news.com.au.
“It also censored queries related to gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender material, said the Open Net Initiative”, according to the story. Searches for this kind of material prompted, “Your country or region requires a strict Bing SafeSearch setting, which filters out results that might return adult content.”
The message “seemed at odds with the fact that while political censorship is widespread in the Middle East, not all countries there mandate filtering of sex, nudity, homosexuality and other such ’social content’,” it has ONI saying. “Microsoft has signalled its willingness to be at the forefront in protecting freedom of expression around the world”, says the story.
Huh! What? When was this?
“Bing didn’t impose search settings based on IP addresses indicating where computers are located, so users can get around filters by choosing versions of the engine crafted for other countries”, says ONI.
Microsoft “did not return a request for comment”, news.com.au adds.
The Open Net Initiative is a collaboration including the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto; Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School; the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at University of Oxford; and, The SecDev Group which took over from the Advanced Network Research Group at the Cambridge Security Programme, University of Cambridge.
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child’s play – Microsoft Bing: major porn search engine, January 2, 2010
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March, 2010
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March 10th, 2010 at 11:23 am
Vagina and Tom Jones Sex Bomb Lyrics UNCENSORED! lol
“It also censored queries related to gay, lesbian, bi-sexual and transgender material, said the Open Net Initiative”,
Thats not TECHNICALLY true
I went to http://www.bing.com/?scope=web&setmkt=ar-XA&setlang=SET_NULL&uid=41727F0A&FORM=W5WA
and typed in ‘Lesbian education information’ and the first result was on GLSEN
type in ’salacious pictures women’ and click on the 2nd Result LOL I mean really
Censorship fails, where Bing tries it just does not work even in Arabian Countries