The censorship that China imposes on its citizens within its borders is unbelievable. In the country where western social media and search engines do not work, domestic alternatives are used, but they are followed with heavy censorship. However, it is also effective abroad because Western companies that want to do business have to submit to this censorship on a global scale.
censorship move from Microsoft
Research by The Citizen Lab has revealed that Microsoft has disabled the autocomplete feature in searches for sensitive Chinese personalities. Autocomplete is not available on DuckDuckGo, which uses the Bing search engine, Windows Start menu, and the Bing recommendation engine.
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President Xi Jinping, activist This censorship comes into play in the searches of personalities such as Liu Xiaobo and the person standing in front of the tanks. It is stated that the second largest group that Microsoft has censored is Chinese personalities. The largest group is porn and erotic expressions. It is stated that censorship is active in many countries, especially in China, the USA and Canada.
It is inevitable that Microsoft, which has an important market in China, will find a common path. Not only Microsoft, but also giant technology companies such as Apple do not want to confront China, so they feel the need to implement their censorship policies somehow.
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