According to The Guardian in 2014, searches for the Dalai Lama and Tiananmen Square, among other topics, returned different results in Chinese and English, suggesting that Microsoft was applying Chinese censorship rules to users not in China as well. Microsoft blamed this on a "systems error."
And earlier this year, Bing was briefly blocked in China, reportedly for "illegal content," but service was eventually restored.
Now, Chinese-language censorship is no longer applied through Bing, but the search engine still censors results within China.
The censorship applies to Microsoft-owned LinkedIn, too. According to Wired, in 2014, Hong Kong legislator Charles Mok had a LinkedIn post referencing Tiananmen Square taken down, and he received a message from the company explaining why the post was not visible.
LinkedIn openly supports the censors of China and should be condemned for such acts. pic.twitter.com/mauLDlIOpp
β Charles Mok θ«δΉε
(@charlesmok)
June 3, 2014