«Breaking News» Microsoft's Bing blocked in China, prompting grumbling

Microsoft's Bing search engine is now accessible in China again after experiencing a disruption in service.

Attempts to access Bing had resulted in an error message for users starting late Wednesday, as the most prominent foreign search engine available in China experienced a temporary blackout.

The internet outage raised fears among social media users that Bing was the latest foreign website to be blocked by censors. 

The website was blocked due to 'an accidental technical error', according to Bloomberg, citing two anonymous sources - rather than a deliberate attempt to restrict Bing, which already complies with local censorship rules.

Microsoft confirmed in a statement that its search engine Bing was inaccessible in China

Bing complied with Beijing's censorship rules by excluding foreign websites that are blocked by Chinese filters from search results. But President Xi Jinping's government has steadily tightened control over online activity. 

Chinese internet users who lost access to Bing set off grumbling about the ruling Communist Party's increasingly tight censorship earlier today.

Comments on social media accused regulators of choking off access to information. Others complained they were forced to use Chinese search engines they say deliver poor results.

Bing is seen on a computer in this illustration picture taken January 24, 2019. The search engine had complied with government censorship rules by excluding some foreign websites

'Why can't we choose what we want to use?' said a comment signed Aurelito on the Sina Weibo microblog service.

After the service resumed, Weibo users were rejoiced.   

'Bing has returned,' wrote one user, adding three sobbing emojis. 'I am moved!'

'Bing seems to have resumed access!' exclaimed another. 'Microsoft is great! Microsoft is awesome!' 

China has by far the biggest population of internet users, with some 800 million people online, according to government data.

Alphabet Inc.'s Google unit operated a search engine in China until 2010 that excluded blocked sites from results. The popular internet service remains blocked in mainland China

The Communist Party encourages internet use for business and education but blocks access to foreign websites run by news organisations, human rights and Tibet activists and others deemed subversive.

Since coming to power in 2012, Xi has promoted the notion of 'internet sovereignty,' or the right of Beijing and other governments to dictate what their publics can do and see online.

In 2018 alone, Beijing shuttered 26,000 'illegal' websites and deleted six million online posts containing vulgar content, the official Xinhua news agency said earlier this month.  

Facebook is also banned by Beijing, but Mark Zuckerberg has attempted to re-enter the market

Chinese filters block access to global social media including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Officials argue such services operating beyond their control pose a threat to national security.

Xi's government also has tightened controls on use of virtual private network technology that can evade its filters.

Alphabet Inc.'s Google unit operated a search engine in China until 2010 that excluded blocked sites from results. The company closed that after hacking attacks aimed at stealing Google's source code and breaking into email accounts were traced to China.

That has helped Chinese competitors such as search engine Baidu.com to flourish. But Baidu has been hit by repeated complaints that too many search results are irrelevant or are paid advertising.    

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