<story><title>Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/microsoft-confirms-bing-is-down-in-china/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idrios</author><text>This actually surprises me for how much effort Microsoft puts into being compliant with China. Last year China took down Yahoo! too, despite Yahoo&amp;#x27;s relationship with Alibaba.&lt;p&gt;I was an expat last year and with Google (&amp;amp; DuckDuckGo) blocked I already had pretty few options of search engine. Short of learning enough Chinese to manage Baidu, I can&amp;#x27;t imagine how hard it would be to use internet as a foreigner in China now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tryonqc</author><text>I showed a google map to a police officer (border control on the highway) to show where I was going, no problem. Had setup a few VPN on my iphone before going to have options in case one or two got flagged. My uni VPN worked during my entire stay.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft confirms Bing is down in China</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/23/microsoft-confirms-bing-is-down-in-china/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>idrios</author><text>This actually surprises me for how much effort Microsoft puts into being compliant with China. Last year China took down Yahoo! too, despite Yahoo&amp;#x27;s relationship with Alibaba.&lt;p&gt;I was an expat last year and with Google (&amp;amp; DuckDuckGo) blocked I already had pretty few options of search engine. Short of learning enough Chinese to manage Baidu, I can&amp;#x27;t imagine how hard it would be to use internet as a foreigner in China now.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arrivance</author><text>&amp;gt; Last year China took down Yahoo! too, despite Yahoo&amp;#x27;s relationship with Alibaba.&lt;p&gt;I mean, by last year that relationship stopped existing (as Yahoo!&amp;#x27;s Ali shares would be with Altaba).</text></comment>