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Re:“Tank Man” by bmitc on Friday June 04, 2021 @03:44PM (#27398231)
This is probably related to Bing not showing results because, as far as I know, DuckDuckGo uses Bing as its underlying search engine. I’ve always chuckled at this from the Apple and Linux users railing against Microsoft but then they use DuckDuckGo.

Interestingly, Bing shows plenty of relevant search results for their web results, including images, but doesn’t show results for an image search.

Re:“Tank Man” by flying_sheep on Friday June 04, 2021 @03:46PM (#27398265)
Link to Bing: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tank+man&qs=ds&form=QBI...

This is scary because censorship is reaching to all over the world.

Re:“Tank Man” by belter on Friday June 04, 2021 @03:59PM (#27398435)
That deserves a whole page in itself :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_censorship_of_Chinese...

Although nowadays the bar to be shocked is quite high ..here are some remarkable examples:

European Union : "The organisation agreed to censor references to the Chinese origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, with research suggesting that self-censorship on sensitive topics that may offend the PRC is commonplace."

NASA: "The American space agency faced criticism in China for listing "Taiwan" as a country in a drop-down menu on a website about Mars."

World Health Organization: "Senior advisor Bruce Aylward faced criticism for saying he could not hear a question from RTHK journalist Yvonne Tong about whether Taiwan could join the WHO, asking her to move onto the next question then terminating the interview when she repeated it"

Re:“Tank Man” by frogpelt on Friday June 04, 2021 @03:48PM (#27398280)
But why does Bing filter this?
Re:“Tank Man” by bmitc on Friday June 04, 2021 @05:01PM (#27399037)
Who knows. There’s another post/thread on that I believe. My assumption or guess is that Bing operates in China and whatever filter they use there made it to the outside system by accident. But then again, it's still like that now, which is surprising.