Microsoft Bing blocks Arab LGBT searches
Microsoft’s Bing search engine has been accused of censoring non-pornographic gay and lesbian searches in Arabic countries.
Technology website The Register reports that testing of the search engine in January found it filtered out English and Arabic words related to homosexuality.
Bing users searching for “gay,” “lesbian,” or “homosexuality” are met with the warning, “Your country or region requires a strict Bing SafeSearch setting, which filters out results that might return adult content.”
Bing users in these countries cannot disable the SafeSearch option.
