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.