until 2014 Google didn’t autocomplete or suggest anything if people searched for “bisexual” or related terms. According to a representative of the company this was because “automatic filters detect a strong correlation on the (unfiltered) Internet between those terms [bisexual] and pornography.”1 It took a petition that called for the search giant to “unblock the word bisexual,” signed by 15,500 people, for this to change.2 A similar petition had been signed a year earlier because Apple had a warning that would pop up when people tried to include the term bisexual in app descriptions.
