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:
![Bing's "safe search: moderate" result for "tank man"](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/763/2024/e166ce5f78.jpg)
Perhaps the image is too graphic and safe search is hiding the results? No. Turning safe search off gives the same answer:
![Bing's "safe search: off" result for "tank man"](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/763/2024/02fb547977.jpg)
At first, DuckDuckGo was returning 4 images of men next to tanks:
![DDG's first "safe search: moderate" result for "tank man"](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/763/2024/90ad6f550b.jpg)
Shortly afterward, it was updated so that the exact same search settings didn’t return anything at all:
![DDG's later "safe search: moderate" result for "tank man"](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/763/2024/125ce3e04b.jpg)
DuckDuckGo’s “safe search: off” results were empty from the start:
![DDG's "safe search: off" result for "tank man"](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/763/2024/50a5cee668.jpg)
Full credit to Google here who returns a long list of images:
![Google's default settings search result for "tank man"](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/763/2024/ca846c6e4f.jpg)
Shame on you, Microsoft, for censoring this important historical record.