Posted on 06/04/2021 7:52:11 PM PDT by blueplum
Microsoft blocked its search engine, Bing, from returning image and video results for the phrase “tank man” – a reference to the iconic image of a lone protester facing down tanks during the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square – on Friday, the 32nd anniversary of the military crackdown.
Users reported that no results were shown for the search query in countries including the US, Germany, Singapore, France and Switzerland, according to Reuters and Vice News.
References to the pro-democracy protest movement have long been censored in the People’s Republic of China (PCR), where the government maintains strict control over the internet, but the censorship by Bing extended to users outside China’s “great firewall”....
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BS. I just used Bing to look it up and it came up just like Goooooogle.
You are literally powering up the AI on these censor-engines when you use them. They no longer can be considered search engines.
I heard they rounded up tank man. After some brief tortures they killed him. The protestors bodies were slushed by tanks, pushed into a pile, burned ,then washed away.
Sounds like Microsoft got the message...just as airlines got the message when they started listing Taipei airport as being in China.
Some of the top people working for “Gates of hell” within Microsoft, as well as the B&M “Gates of hell foundation”, are highly influential/Chinese MSS “pipples.
A few years ago I was in Beijing, tried the same thing. Connected to Google and searched Tienanmen Square, results were all lies describing it as peaceful. Was smart enough to install several VPN’s on my phone before I left (they are banned in China). Used the VPN, made it through China’s firewall (surprised me) and the search results were much different. Dam shame this is the world we live in and that our leaders do not speak out about this and our corporations choose dollars over truth. They will all burn in hell.
Who does number two work for?
Maybe in the UK. Not here.
“MS says, “human error” was the cause of the omission regarding the searches for Tankman.”
This appears to be Big Tech’s “go-to” excuse when they get caught and it results in a significant public outcry.
If anyone is buying that I own some prime real estate in the south-central Florida peninsula I can sell you for a really good price.
The perspective on that photo is odd.
Even though it is a telephoto shot, each succeeding tank should appear smaller than the preceding tank if they were all the same sise.
The only explanation is that there are four different-sized tanks.
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Tienanmen square proved to the world that China has not changed from the 1950s and 60s and would commit mass murder to hold onto power.
In summer and fall of 2019 there were large protests in Wuhan and giant ones in Hong Kong that threatened to spread across China. Trump was running them ragged in the trade wars. The communist party of China was facing an existential threat. They were desperate for a way to crush those threats.
And that brings us to coronavirus. Remember Tienanmen.
So yes, without a thought they would kill tens of thousands to stay in power.
They released it intentionally.
+1
Funny how the human error never breaks our way...
Well, it does now. But this afternoon and evening, EST, it didn’t. I checked it out myself. There were plenty of results on Google Images at the same time, but no results on Bing, just as the screengrab shows. I even tried it with “Tank Man” and “Tiananmen,” and there were no results. None came up until I added “Tiananmen Square Massacre” to it.
What’s more, I checked Twitter this afternoon and evening several times, and Tiananmen and June 4 were not trending, although the tweet traffic was obviously heavy, tweets coming every couple of seconds, and many notable “blue check” individuals had tweeted about it. Instead they listed a number of “top trends” that only had a few thousands tweets apiece total. So Twitter, too, seemed to be suppressing the anniversary.
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