Microsoft Bing suspends auto-suggest in Communist China

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More American companies are bowing to Communist China's demands for greater censorship. Now Microsoft Corporation's Bing , the only major foreign search engine available in China, has stopped its auto-suggest function in China for 30 days to comply with Chinese censors . The move by Microsoft is dangerous, say freedom of information groups, and is another example of profit over the free flow of information. "Bing is a global search platform and remains committed to respecting the rule of law and users' right to access information," Bing said on its Chinese search site on Friday. It did not specify reasons…

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