Bing outage in China prompts censorship speculation among netizens

Microsoft’s search engine Bing has been inaccessible in mainland China since Wednesday afternoon, sparking heated public discussions about the fate of the last major Western search platform in China.

Reports from Chinese netizens about the inaccessibility of cn.bing.com—the company’s domestic domain—began flooding Chinese social media platforms, including WeChat and Weibo, on the same day.

The search engine was still inaccessible to TechNode as of 2 p.m. on Thursday, though intermittent availability has been reported by some Twitter users.

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