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		</div><p>Chinese internet users have lost access to Microsoft&#8217;s Bing search engine, sparking complaints about the ruling Communist Party&#8217;s increasingly tight online censorship.</p>
<p>Comments on social media accused regulators of choking off access to information.</p>
<p>Others complained they were forced to use Chinese search engines they say deliver poor results.</p>
<p>&#8220;Why can&#8217;t we choose what we want to use?&#8221; said a comment on the Sina Weibo microblog service.</p>
<p>Bing complied with government censorship rules by excluding foreign websites that are blocked by Chinese filters from search results.</p>
<p>But President Xi Jinping&#8217;s government has steadily tightened control over online activity.</p>
<p>Microsoft confirmed in a statement that Bing was inaccessible in China.</p>
<p><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BB9D6ABB-3AE9-4021-B23F-8CA6DF5013FC.jpeg"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-124644" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BB9D6ABB-3AE9-4021-B23F-8CA6DF5013FC-943x1024.jpeg" alt="" width="640" height="695" /></a></p>
<p>It said the company is trying to &#8220;determine next steps&#8221; but gave no details.</p>
<p>China has by far the biggest population of internet users, with some 800 million people online, according to government data.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Since coming to power in 2012, Mr Xi has promoted the notion of &#8220;internet sovereignty&#8221;, or the right of Beijing and other governments to dictate what the public can do and see online.</p>
<p>Chinese filters block access to global social media including Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.</p>
<figure id="attachment_124645" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-124645" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/9713381F-F734-4F74-9388-F4E50E1D2A8F.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-124645" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/9713381F-F734-4F74-9388-F4E50E1D2A8F.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="325" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-124645" class="wp-caption-text">Chinese President Xi Jinping.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Officials argue such services operating beyond their control pose a threat to national security.</p>
<p>Mr Xi&#8217;s government has also tightened controls on use of virtual private network technology that can evade its filters.</p>
<p>Alphabet&#8217;s Google unit operated a search engine in China until 2010 that excluded blocked sites from results.</p>
<p>The company closed that after hacking attacks aimed at stealing Google&#8217;s source code and breaking into email accounts were traced to China.</p>
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