tiananmen square
China Is About to Show Off Its New High-Tech Weapons to the World
On September 3, China will hold a “Victory Day” military parade in Tiananmen Square to celebrate the 80th anniversary of its victory over Japan—and to send the West a message.
Somewhere, a Chinese PR team prays that this will become the first Google result for “tiananmen square tanks”.
Bing is censoring Tank Man search results
Bing is censoring images of the Tiananmen Square “tank man” image. DuckDuckGo, who uses Bing’s search backend, is too.
Here’s the result of a Bing search for “tank man” with safe search on the default “moderate” setting:
Perhaps the image is too graphic and safe search is hiding the results? No. Turning safe search off gives the same answer:
At first, DuckDuckGo was returning 4 images of men next to tanks:
Shortly afterward, it was updated so that the exact same search settings didn’t return anything at all:
DuckDuckGo’s “safe search: off” results were empty from the start:
Full credit to Google here who returns a long list of images:
Shame on you, Microsoft, for censoring this important historical record.