Bing Censoring All Simplified Chinese Language Queries

Nicholas Kristof, a New York Times journalist, is calling for a boycott of Microsoft’s Bing. They have censored search requests at the request of the Chinese Government. The difference is that Bing has censored all searches done anywhere in simplified Chinese characters (the characters used in mainland China). This means that a Chinese speaker searching for Tiananmen anywhere in the world now gets the impression that it is just a lovely place to visit — via Slashdot