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 Totalitarian Microsoft Censors More than China

New Research from University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab presents clear systematic evidence that Microsoft censors more than even the Chinese government through it's corrupt and manipulative search engine Bing inside China.

Quote from their study:
"The institute found that Microsoft censors its Bing translation results more than top Chinese services, including Baidu Translate and Tencent Machine Translation. Bing’s censorship rules in China are so stringent that even mentioning President Xi Jinping leads to a complete block of translation results."

The report analyzed 10,000 unique censorship applications, and compared Baidu, Tencent, NetEase, Alibaba, and others.  Yet the institute found without a doubt that Bing had THE most oppressive results.  This is on the back of Bill Gates pushing for mandatory global digital IDs.

Source: https://restofworld.org/2024/microsoft-bing-chinese-censorship/