Microsoft Corp has imaged the phrase “tankman”, which is a reference to a symbolic image of a lone protester heading for a tank during a 1989 protest at Tiananmen Square on the 32nd by search engine Bing And after blocking the video results, blamed the human error. Anniversary of military crackdown.

According to Reuters and Vice News, users reported that they did not see search query results in countries such as France, Germany, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States.

References to the democratic movement have long been censored in China, where the government has tight control over the Internet, but Bing’s censorship extends to users outside China’s “Great Firewall.”

Microsoft states that the issue is “due to an accidental human error and we are actively working to resolve it.”

Smaller search engines such as DuckDuckGo have stated that Microsoft’s license results are facing similar issues with “Tankman” searches and will be fixed soon.

Rival Google gave a lot of search results for famous images on Friday and yesterday’s “Tankman” search.

The incident bans China’s anniversary worship service at Tiananmen Square for the second year in a row, raising concerns about how much economic pressure China can exert to force censorship abroad. Occurred during the crackdown on.

Just last week, US actor John Cena officially apologized for calling Taiwan a “country.” This is a crime against China, which claims that Taiwan is not an independent country.

US-based tech companies have long struggled to balance their desire to do business in China’s huge markets with government censorship demands.

Microsoft Bing is one of the few foreign search engines accessible in China because it has agreed to censor search results for delicate terms such as the Dalai Lama, Tiananmen Square and Falun Gong.

In 2016, the New York Times reported that Facebook is working on a secret tool that allows third parties to censor the platform of Chinese users in exchange for allowing the Chinese government to operate Facebook in the country. It was.