Monday, March 08, 2010

Microsoft's Bing blocks and filters sex searches in Arab countries...

THE Open Net Initiative (ONI) on Friday said Microsoft's search engine Bing is more prudish than government censors when it comes to sex-related online queries.

A January test of a Bing version tailored for users in Arab countries showed that it filtered Arabic and English words for sexually explicit content along with queries related to gay, lesbian, bi-sexual or transgender material.

Attempts to use filtered keywords prompted a message reading 'Your country or region requires a strict Bing SafeSearch setting, which filters out results that might return adult content,' according to ONI. 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,' ONI reported. More...

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