China orders the blocking of Bing: the consequences of the trade war between the United States and China continue

We know the particularities when accessing the Internet in China. In the Asian giant, rights and freedoms of all kinds are something that on many (or all) occasions are conspicuous by their absence In the case of the Internet, it is from a free source of information that does not depend on the tight control of the powerful government apparatus.

We have seen high-profile cases and there is WhatsApp, Facebook, Google or Netflix, and to all of them is now added the blocking of the Microsoft Bing search enginefollowing an order from the Chinese government.Let's remember that Google left the Chinese market in 2010 due to its confrontations with the councilors of the Asian country and now its return is being considered through the yoke of censorship.

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The operator China Unicom, one of the main state telecommunications companies, has been in charge of announcing that through an order issued by the government , you have blocked access to Bing. This was announced in the Financial Times.

Microsoft is aware of the issue, which is that Chinese users trying to access the Bing China website, cn. bing.com, they were running into an unexpected crash. Social networks have been the loudspeaker to show discontent in this situation.

The Bing website for China is only limited to access if you try to carry out from the Asian country, as it is still available if we test to access from outside of China, which rules out any type of functional failure.

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Xi Jinping and the Communist Party continue their fight to end dissent and all those who think differently and the The network and social networks are the ideal breeding ground for the expansion of ideas that the apparatus considers revolutionary."

An example is that from the organization that is in charge of managing cyberspace in the Chinese country, they are proud to have eliminated more than 7 million pieces of newsand have blocked more than 9,000 mobile applications. It is true that Bing had a very small market share in China, only 2%, far behind Baidu, which reaches 70% according to the StarCounter website.

From Microsoft they are aware of the situation and are studying all the steps that they can take in a situation that derives from the war between China and the United States.

Source | Financial Times