Microsoft – which is usually progressive as far as GLBT rights are concerned – has bowed to 22 Arabic countries and will now censor what it deems “gay lifestyle” content. That’s right – visiting Algeria or Syria anytime soon and you won’t get your daily InstinctMagazine.com fix by using the corp’s Arabic Bing search engine. Site’s classified as GLBT news, dating, information or other are also now invisible to users in the nearly two dozen countries.

If that wasn’t enough to get your beautiful blood boiling, loyal readers, Microsoft users in the censorship-afflicted areas cannot search or view sexual health websites or anything for that matter that includes tags – regardless of their scientific mettle – boasting sex,...