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> (his friend’s phone specified the region as the US and the language as English, followed by Chinese.) I use the Chinese keyboard as a very rudimentary Mandar
by bowmessage 8y ago
> (his friend’s phone specified the region as the US and the language as English, followed by Chinese.)
I use the Chinese keyboard as a very rudimentary Mandarin speaker. Does this mean the Chinese government was still getting information on my chat history even though I'm a US citizen?!
- phyzome 8y agoProbably, but that's unrelated to what the article is about. :-P
- toyg 8y agoit's not a keylogger -- it's a simple "if" branch to hide the Taiwan flag from the emoji set.
- Shivetya 8y agodo they hide offensive emoji's in other countries? would the hide the Israeli flag for phones sold in Middle Eastern countries? I would love to find a published list of what Apple does censor to accommodate specific country or regional issues.
- mjevans 8y agoI would feel less intellectually dishonest if plain text were unaffected (but the country in question were simply removed from the spelling suggestions), and if the Emoji were replaced with a hyperlinked reference and some kind of 'censored' emoji instead. The reference should be to a page explaining that in compliance with (links to guidelines / official diplomatic requests here) content that is required to be censored by the regulating authorities in a given region has been redacted.
- bangonkeyboard 8y agoApple Music literally disappeared scenes and mentions of Palestine from a Vic Mensa music video and interview. "You got, like, Charlottesville, you have scenes in Palestine, Standing Rock," [0] was edited to, "You got, like, Charlottesville, you have...Standing Rock." [1] [0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/post/sa.e79e61c0-f89d-11e7-8829-d320c2561bfe https://itunes.apple.com/us/post/sa.e79e61c0-f89d-11e7-8829-... [1] https://twitter.com/Beats1/status/952952704564838400 https://twitter.com/Beats1/status/952952704564838400