Microsoft Joins Religious Police in Middle East, More Royal than………

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“The Open Net Initiative (ONI) on Friday said Microsoft's search engine Bing is more prudish than government censors when it comes to sex-related online queries. A January test of a Bing version tailored for users in Arab countries showed that it filtered Arabic and English words for sexually explicit content along with queries related to gay, lesbian, bi-sexual or transgender material……….. The message seemed at odds with the fact that while political censorship is widespread in the Middle East, not all countries there mandate filtering of sex, nudity, homosexuality and other such "social content," ONI reported………..”

The Microsoft branch of the Commission for the Propagation of Vice (aka religious police).
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Posted by Mohammed Haider Ghuloum PhD at 3/6/2010 2:17 PM
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