Boycott Microsoft Bing
Found on Nicholas Kristof on Friday, 20 November 2009
Now Microsoft is sacrificing the integrity of Bing searches so as to cozy up to State Security in Beijing. In effect, it has chosen become part of the Communist Party's propaganda apparatus.
Search "Tiananmen" and you'll find out about the army firing on pro-democracy protesters in 1989. Search Dalai Lama, Falun Gong and you also get credible results.
But conduct the search with the simplified characters used in mainland China, then you get sanitized pro-Communist results. This is especially true of image searches. Magic! No Tiananmen Square massacre. The Dalai Lama becomes an oppressor. Falun Gong believers are villains, not victims.
While you're at it, boycott Yahoo and Google too, because guess what? Right. A multi-billion company will happily join a dictatorship and censoring regime as long as the money keeps coming in. Welcome to real life.