Fox upset about Bing

Microsoft has a tendency of releasing things before they are tested out fully. Look at there operating systems for instance. Many applications weren't compatible with vista and Microsoft didn't mention the requirements involved for software developers.
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Why so much sarcasm?

It should not be so easy for children to view this type of content, and there should be more of a deterrent (such as having to go through the age verification).

Stop whining about what some company is doing on the internet...you know more advanced search tools are being created every day to entice ANYONE to view whatever content they wish. Learn to use your computers and begin screening your browsers to block whatever content you do not want your children to see.
Microsoft paid alot of people to incorporate content filters into their browser for when things like this come up. It seems that people seem to know how to teak thier computers to try and make it run faster, but have no idea how to set security measures on thier own machine. It is not a hard thing to do at all. It is in the help file in your own computers, but apparently, no one knows how to get there either. I'm frightened to see that the whole "independent thought" thing hasn't caught on yet. Come on people, use your heads for once!! Have a good day.

Here's Bill O' Reilly.

[punsomewhatintended]WE'LL DO IT LIVE!!!

Allowing both right and left viewpoints is considered "far right wing" to you? That only indicated that you are so far left that we need binoculars to see you. Too bad about the EU elections going to the right. I bet you and your union are seething about it.

Its funny how right-wingers say "guns dont kill people,people kill people", well isnt this the same thing?
Freaking hypocrites!

quote "of course he's gay he's British",

Well, at least then he's not fat and stupid.

Quote "...I don't want to see it..."

So, why did you turn off the filter and why did you go and look?

You are of course a hypocrite.

You are one of those types who spend their life trawling for stuff to complain about.

My experience of being a parent is that if you shield your kids too much from the harsh reality of real life, they crave the searching for the bad stuff even more.

Many of the other parents at the local school, don't let their kids use a computer unsupervised even at the age of 10, they don't let them watch TV at certain times, they don't let them out of their site when playing in the backyard.

My experience of their kids: Immature, unbalanced, insecure, socially inept.
and ignorant of the world.

The fact that the website has a filter on it that you have to actually turn off to get the bad stuff is enough.

This rather like those people who complain about TV programs, if you don't like it, don't watch it, but don't think for one minute you have the god given right to tell everyone else what they can and can't see. Because to do that means you had to go and look for it and watch it first, and since when did you have the authority to do that?

If you think you're better than everyone else and can make these judgements, then you are in for a suprise.

Oh and of course "being very left wing..." or "being very right wing..." for that matter immediately implies that you have a severely unbalanced opinion, which was clearly demonstrated by the rest of your "speech".

"Very left wing" gave us Russia, China and other various human rights issues, "being very right wing.." gave us Hitler and Mussolini, none which proved to be very healthy for personal freedoms and free speech.

You shot yourself down in the headline.

I don't want my kids seeing the type of thing you watched and searched for, but I know they won't even bother to go and find it, they know it exists, but they aren't interested, because I bring them up properly.

@M-

So, what is the cutoff age where you will stop hovering over your child whislt they drink from the heavy firehose that is the interwebs? Cell phone in the latrine at 14, you'll be there to intercept that browse? At the library after school? No visiting friends houses who may have subscribed to this global network of horror? Clear glass bedroom doors, mate? Okie dokie.

Funny that you bumped a News Corp story.

Sad that you bashed political parties and religious groups by lumping them all together with a dictator run media corporation that has only been around a short time (in relation)

When did you start pretending to be Andrew Dice Clay?

now go post your picture of mohammad that's hanging in your cube, with you smiling next to it. What don't think that's funny? whats the difference?

Indeed Christians and Muslims have a lot in common, the one group have their heads stuck up a pigs ass and the latter have their heads stuck up their own ass.
There shouldn't be anything wrong with Bing, but rather how it's used. MS is trying to introduce a new kind of technology to make browsing the net more fun and productive.
I don't think that the Fox network have any Nazi propaganda that they wanna push, just merely pointing out a obvious flaw.

If it wasn't for Fox news, The daily show would have a lot more problems in coming up with ridiculous news statements to make fun off.
Besides that.. There would not be so many funny clips on You tube where thinking people hammer FOX news anchors for their narrow minded circle reasoning skills..

The vitriolic news diarrhoea coming from fox thus helps to put regular life in a more shiny context.
Besides that it is important to hear what is fermenting in the uneducated fairytale loving underbelly of society.

By the way, I always thought that hover-over preview feature would've been a good implementation into gnome since it already does it for audio files and uses a snapshot of the middle of a video file as the video's icon. I guess the gnome developers couldn't put 2 and 2 together and it took microsoft to see the obvious. Makes me mad....

Halfway through the article I was thinking that Fox was angry because Bing's free porn service was cutting into Fox's own hordes of pay porn sites. It even sounds like a more likely reason than that "save the children" nonsence.

What is your kid doing on the Internet if they are not looking at pornography? Are computers good for anything else?

"Atheists generally have better morals anyways ... we treat people better without the need to imagine a superior being that will punish or reward us for our actions."
Yup this shows atheists like you are bigots too.
"Keep your twisted religious beliefs in your own house"
I bet you never read the Bible. I not talking the book of hatred called the Koran, I mean the Bible, New Testament in peticular.
Now go pray to your monkey god, Darwin and enjoy this life for you will not see the second one for your denial.

Hey Here's a couple great Ideas!

- If you dont like what Bing does, don't use it!

- Monitor how your kids use the internet, use net-nanny or similar softwares if you're too lazy to responsibly monitor what your kids are doing online.

- Stop promoting the insane idea that somehow morals and decency are things created by religion, that you must have faith to have morals. Morals and decency are nothing more than tribal survival mechanisms that were favoured by natural selection. Atheists generally have better morals anyways ... we treat people better without the need to imagine a superior being that will punish or reward us for our actions.

Keep your twisted religious beliefs in your own house, in your own church, in your own imagination. You've got no business telling others how your imaginary god thinks we should live our lives ... and no business complaining that no one should have access to services like Bing because of the chance they might use it in ways that you find offensive.

I think the religitards are just scared that with Bing, their priests will have yet another way to shame their churches and congregations.

"The Inq, however, has no pretenses about calling, OK, insulting, half the people in the USA by relating them to Nazis. "

Half the reason I read this site: they call it like it is, and by the way -only 30% of USA people legal to vote vote republican.

According to the article, Fox is upset that punters will be able to watch porn without having to make the effort to visit the hardcore porn website and possibly undergo age screening procedures. Well, so what? On one hand, if the porn site has no age screening, clicking on a link to see a video isn't any harder than hovering over a pornographic image. On the other hand, if a video is protected by an age check, how was the Bing search engine able to pass an age check and index the video?

If Fox wants to protect kids from porn, they'd be better off complaining about age checks. When age checks are present, they are typically little more than clicking on button labeled "I promise I am 18".

Honestly, what do you expect if you turn off filtering? If anything, it should be incredibly easy to integrate Net Nanny-like policies into the search engine to prevent such content from being displayed. Does he also complain so loudly about unfiltered Google Images? It does the same kind of thing.

The republicans are worse sex offenders than anyone else, here's recent proof of a panda sex offender for the Repub's in the conservative state of PA!

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2009/05/state_legislative_aide_accused.html

Yea Nick, you stay over their in your leftist country that has cameras on every street corner and complain about right wingers in the USA who want to keep freedom and not become you.
Liberals love to preach freedom and rights but are the quickest to take it from you and blame it on conservatives but what do you expect from habitual liars. Their masses are so stupid they keep following them.

Typical Nick long live the mighty Vole and how dare anyone criticize them you will be subject to a tongue lashing from their whipping boy.

anybody with morals is a target to you I guess... I've been visiting engadget, gizmodo and lifehacker more often and it looks now that I'm choosing to stop visits to the INQ altogether now. Your obvious bias and hatred have taken their toll on this reader... sorry-- I'm going to other places to read up on the news... hope your advertisers see this comment and realize what you've done.

"Ny the way "me," downloading and perusing child porn is a federal felony. There is no research exception. You have Bush 43 and the repubs to thank for this law. I have forwarded your comments and the web address of this site to the Federal Department of Justice. I'd do a thorough erase of your drive if I were you. After all, he who lives by the sword"

He didn't go looking for child porn, he typed "japanese sex" or something similar and that's what got him his results.

And to the posters who think Christians are the enemy, Christianity is simply one beggar telling another beggar where to find food. If you don't want the gift, a simple No totally suffices. This is an English publication(The enquirer) and, last I checked, most English speakers live in free countries. So, if the laws seem to favor Christianity more than other religions, that's just a symptom(good or bad) of the society.

As for those whom hate Fox, I imagine you like CNN and the other leftist leaning news outlets. Guess what your caught in an illusion, left and right are controlled by the same people. You're wasting your time arguing between yourselves over trivial matters. That's just what the elite planned lol a political side show.
Now go read some real news that isn't in the US Jewish run press. http://pakalert.wordpress.com for Pakistan news and go Google or Bling and search for Bilderberg. You guys might want to also investigate the Federal Reserve, it's not run by the Government, it's run by the same people whom run Obama's side show in the Executive Branch.. So stop the left-right crap and focus your attention and energy on the real enemy!
(yes Fox is one of them, but so is CNN)

"More like Fox is upset that you will be able to view videos that Fox makes available without having to go to Fox's site."

My first thoughts

OK, I can totally understand FOX’s response. They employ a lot of people and intelligence is not always prerequisite for types of role that they originally were hired to perform. At some point they loose their looks and get promoted, before we know it they start entertaining us with their moral concerns.

On the other hand this comment is priceless:

“Obviously, you have an axe to grind against repubs, Christians and anything having to do with FOX News. I think you Sir, need intense therapy, and sensitivity training.”

What's with all the arguing? Fox News did a hack job on Bing. They and anyone who agrees with the thrust of their "story" should be derided and possibly cut in half by a train. If you have an issue with this, shouldn't you be reading CNET or something? In any case, welcome to the above mentioned friction.

Sure, Fox is right wing. And the other networks aren't, which doesn't mean they are objective either.

The Inq, however, has no pretenses about calling, OK, insulting, half the people in the USA by relating them to Nazis. This is the lowest form of any kind of rhetoric- to-the-man it is called.

So, we know where you stand, and now you can guess where I stand when it comes to your advertisers, which are now all blocked by AdBlock.

Our Reich-wing Republicans have turned their hatred of big government into something of a fetish. We are told over, and over, and over again that government interference in our lives is tantamount to a communist conspiracy. Incidences like Bing exposes them for what they really are, greedy manipulative oligarchs that want to be able to steal, embezzle, rape pillage and plunder the hard work of the day laborer, hourly wage worker and fixed income retirees. This sort of "freedom" is exactly what pit us in the current economic crisis! But boy oh boy when they want to impose their wacky, narrow-minded and often bigoted "morals" on the rest of us, suddenly government is the Savior (at least until sweet Jesus returns). No government regulation of private, consensual behavior is too extreme, restrictive or onerous. So it appears that Big Government is only bad when it puts a cop oh their corner to make sure they don't steal. Otherwise, government offers the perfect tool to "bring the rest of us sinners to Jesus." Ughhh!!!

Software is neutral. If parents are worried about their kiddies seeing bits and bobs, or reading about evolution, or learning that the world is more than 6,000 years old, then it is their responsibility. They have no right to limit the lawful behavior of other adults.

@me is a fine example of this approach. He says he doesn't want to get porn returned in his searches, but what does he do? He turns off all filtering and then enters search terms guaranteed to turn up such porn. It's like the old argument over censoring Cable and Broadcast TV. If you don't want to see it, then don't search it out. If you don';t want your kids to see it, then supervise them, don't just park them in front of a tv or computer and use that as a baby sitter.

Ny the way "me," downloading and perusing child porn is a federal felony. There is no research exception. You have Bush 43 and the repubs to thank for this law. I have forwarded your comments and the web address of this site to the Federal Department of Justice. I'd do a thorough erase of your drive if I were you. After all, he who lives by the sword....

SCB, of course he is gay, he is british..

They use to come on my TV when I was watching Survivor: Ground Zero. They always shouted "What are we going to do about Saddam?" They are always sadamn mad about poor people, and claiming their self-righteous right to the Lost and Found and everything under the sun. They are seditious instigators jealously undermining liberty, and seeding firearms. Near every intrigue of both the last and present century bear their arms. They might only be surpassed by Labour.

Thank Temperance, that their time slot was taken over by Supernatural on the CW.

But I can't rest easy from the white snakes and tiny brown men with their arrows and bows which have no ankle bite. Cardiff has said the rift will be back in full swing on Torchwood this Summer. Murdock or no.

Author is an idiot, plain and simple.

He must be gay! Otherwise I don't understand his hatred towards Fox in general, and to some organization protecting children from smut in particular

All good things in life are free. The deal with this is smut watchers think so good of porn to them it must be free.

I like the fact that the greedy sex pedlars are actually preaching that sin isn't free. A classic self-defeating self-accusatory act. I would have thought they would have pleaded the fifth!

In this, I would rather neutralize the issue by using "Dirt is Cheap" and "You are what you watch"!

Meanwhile, I may get my green wish just watching the porn system crash, then after a while people will get tired of looking at the smutty oldies and the net will be more virtually clean in the end.

The same Reich-wing Christian Republicans that are likely to view the said pr0n according to a recent study. I'm not making this up!

Since when do decency & morals equate to Reich-wing Christian Republicans?

Talk about extreme views.

Very good, Nikki - kids should have free and open access to as much P0RN as they want.

Damn you Fox, damn you to HELL!

Fox "News" doesn't deserve any respect. They, like the republican extremists they support, are advocates of the most heinous crimes that can be committed:
Unnecessary war of aggression
Torture
Assassination of doctors
Fox agitated for months against Dr. Tiller and they finally saw the fruits of their labor when he was murdered. The lies and propaganda peddled by Fox has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of human beings. They deserve no respect. In fact, some of them should be tried and jailed for inciting violence.

You can't buy better publicity than this. While Fox might be making a big song and dance about morality, every guy watching that broadcast will be mentally bookmarking the URL so they can use it to find porn at a later date. Once they get used to using it for porn, chances are they might stick around and use it for other stuff as well.

You want to know the problem we have with the right? Nick probably feels as I and and lot of others feel. We're sick of hypocritical, introverted, misogynistic, self-serving, whining, bigoted, grand standing wankers like your self attempting to be the world's moral police and tell others what's right and wrong according to which ever GOD you've chosen to believe in. We have news for you thick headed extremists, we're free adults and can think and choose for ourselves and we'll thank you to mind your own business and stop judging those who think differently than you as fools and sinners every time you turn around. You don't have to be on the left or working for them to feel this way, you only have to have been alive sometime in the last 2000 years. So, in retrospect, how about you leave Nick alone since he's just calling it like it is, gather up yourself and your self righteous buddies and take a long walk off a short pier.

While "Reich-wing Christian Republicans" is a cute catch phrase, it draws more attention to the author's atmosphere filled cranium with a severe absence of any factual history. I am sorry to inform you that the Nazi party was both a national socialist and anti-capitalist party. It was a nice try, but you fail.

What, there's porn on the internet? The Internet is for porn? Holy crap when did this happen, what have I been missing? Thank you Microsoft for bringing us teh pronz!

Obviously I turned off the filter to see what results would be produced. If I can turn it off so can anyone else including my children and yours.

Sex bothers me not at all but I do draw a limit when it comes to pedophilia.
posted by : me, 02 June 2009

If you let young children use the internet unsupervised, then *you* are the problem not any search engine.

Yes anyone can turn the filter off, but its a lot easier for your kids to search sex in google and click the first link that comes up.

Yahoo already has a viewing process where you dont first have to go to the site, bypassing any age filters. But again you need to turn the filter off first to get the content in the first place. The filter can also be protected to make it stay on safe mode if you wish.

You're very naive to believe a child wont be able to access porn if they want to. And Fox thinking they can censor the web is a ridiculous notion

Obviously, you have an axe to grind against repubs, Christians and anything having to do with FOX News. I think you Sir, need intense therapy, and sensitivity training. Yep, those that seem to espouse equality and diversity, have no problem, with demonizing and hating those that have anything to do with the right.
You, Sir, are a sphincter muscle.

It's not as if anyone was using 'Bing' anyway. (Well, not until Fox told them it existed)

Then why did you turn the filter off if you don't want to be exposed to such images? Seems like a pretty stupid thing to do.

"US RIGHT-WING PROPAGANDA TV network Fox News"

Very clever and as neutral as the left wing propaganda broadcaster, the BBC!

Obviously I turned off the filter to see what results would be produced. If I can turn it off so can anyone else including my children and yours.

Sex bothers me not at all but I do draw a limit when it comes to pedophilia.

....I somewhat must agree and take position against Bing. After reading this article I "binged" the term Japanese sex and turned off filtering. I immediately was given a video of a Japanese child being bound and raped by an adult man. Sure the child was probably an adult made to look like a minor but it's still not a healthy thing and I don't want to see it and certainly don't want my children growing up with such images.

More like Fox is upset that you will be able to view videos that Fox makes available without having to go to Fox's site.

"family-oriented pressure groups"

That's a euphemism for a group who's leader will shortly be exposed as kiddy fiddlers or adulterers isn't it?

Not commenting on the story... just wanted note that the phrase „Reich-wing Christian Republicans“ made me laugh really, really hard… good on you Nick… :)

Thanks Fahx for pointing that out.
checking that out now...

why bother trying to compete with the almighty? The fact that google has already become a verb says it all.
Give up now and stop wasting your time/money.