According to the Guardian, Indian authorities have managed to convince Yahoo and Microsoft to limit their search engines and prohibit users from searching for smut.

Yahoo and Flickr have apparently made changes to their sites, preventing users from switching off the SafeSearch feature. The same goes for users in Singapore, Hong Kong and Korea, probably the South one, as the North in well known for its liberal free speech policies and abundant internet connectivity.

Microsoft has also implemented some changes on its Bing search engine. Indian users who try searching for sexual content on Bing get a notice saying their country requires a strict SafeSearch setting and that the search has been filtered for adult content.

The changes seem to have been prompted by India's Information Technology Act of 2000. This piece of legislation is based on a 150-year-old statute and it prohibits publication of pornographic material online.

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