A new report found that Microsoft's Bing search engine restricted search results more than any other platform among eight China-accessible platforms analyzed by the University of Toronto. "These findings call into question the ability of non-Chinese technology companies to better resist censorship demands than their Chinese counterparts," the report from the university's Citizen Lab, part
China itself implemented censorship requirements, but platforms appear to have latitude as to how they interpret and implement those rules as well as their own measures.
The report claims that China’s censorship net has widened over the years and has become more subtle. Search engines operating in China created algorithms to ‘hard censor’ searches that the government thought were politically sensitive
Researchers from the Citizen Lab, a cybersecurity research group, found that the most diligent censor in China is Microsoft’s search engine Bing, the only foreign search engine operating in the country.
Across eight China-accessible search platforms analyzed Baidu, Baidu Zhidao, Bilibili, Microsoft Bing, Douyin, Jingdong, Sogou, and Weibo we discovered…