How Microsoft Bing Censors the Middle East

‘Shortly after Microsoft Bing launched in 2009, researchers at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society found that the search engine was enforcing ‘safe search’ in a number of countries, including across the whole of the Middle East and North Africa (or as Microsoft erroneously called the region at the time, the ‘Arabian countries’). In a paper entitled Sex, Social Mores and Keyword Filtering: Microsoft Bing in ‘Arabian Countries’, the researchers claimed that Microsoft was filtering ‘Arabic and English keywords that could yield sex- or LGBT-related images and content.’1 As a result of the paper, Microsoft pulled back the censorship in certain places and corrected their laughable mislabeling of the region.’

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