Bing users in Arab countries 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.”
And there’s no getting around it, at least not easily. Bing users in these countries cannot disable the SafeSearch option.
“Is this part of a pact between Microsoft and these Arab governments to let the site do business there?
“Just like Google originally volunteered to censor results for Google.cn to please the Chinese government, Bing’s practice of censoring risque sexual words, and anything to do with homosexuality, could very well be a business move to curry favor with Arab states who frown on that tres Western idea of frank dialogue about sex.”
