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Taiwan flag emoji disappears from latest Apple iPhone keyboard

94 points by Red_Tarsius 7y ago

lilyball 7y ago
> Meanwhile, an app showing the location of Hong Kong police deployments has been barred from the Apple app store. This is a very weird addition to this article, given that the app was rejected by app review, not banned (it wasn't on the app store in the first place), and was already approved before this article's publication date.
- ackbar03 7y ago
  It's not weird once you realize the hongkong free press is an extremely biased anti-beijing publication
  - throwaway1997 7y ago
    It's pro-human rights and socially liberal. I guess there is a lot of intersection because Beijing systematically oppresses people but the bias isn't explicitly anti-Beijing
    - throwaway5542 7y ago
      No, it’s more like Fox News. They have a specific agenda.
      - exabrial 7y ago
        /.+News.*/ has an agenda
    - wendyshu 7y ago
      I don't think it's unreasonable to say it has a anti-Beijing bias.
  - fuckccp 7y ago
    Yeh yeh yeh, Long live Queen Carrie Lam and Emperor Xi
- noah-kun 7y ago
  Seems appropriate to mention in an anti-China propaganda piece.
  - dmdmmfmfm 7y ago
    Other countries don’t have a specific department for propaganda. China does.
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wendyshu 7y ago
Oh for Pete's sake, what next.
whoevercares 7y ago
Even as a native mainlander who sometimes being identified as a paid propagandist, I don’t understand why and I didn’t receive any information from my upstream contact
- noah-kun 7y ago
  China likely trying to ease the transition.
  - jobigoud 7y ago
    The transition? Are you mixing up Taiwan and Hong Kong?
JohnJamesRambo 7y ago
This isn’t the reality distortion field I want to live in. Tibet exists, Taiwan exists. This is so silly.
deevolution 7y ago
Countries come and go countless times in human history. Who's surprised by this?
noah-kun 7y ago
Taiwan and Tibet are part of China, but has a deal to keep the governments mostly separate until a certain date. China has made some efforts to make the changes gradual. There has been some resistance to the changes, but they are largely exaggerated or directed and paid for by the West. The U.S. official behind the murderous Contras in South America now heads a program that's paid at least $29 million to HK terrorists. Having read the CIA documents that instructed the contras to destabilize and overthrow South American states, I have no doubt there is effectively anti-China Contras/terrorists receiving the same or similar instructions and training. China is using it's power to dramatically improve parts of the world that the US has become dependant on exploiting. The West is very interested in creating a barrier between China and the Pacific to limit it's access to trade with the Americas and elsewhere. Thankfully China has many contingency plans for this and Trump's off-putting style of diplomatic relations may lose the US from friends. A better world could emerge with China's leadership, but HK, Taiwan and elsewhere may suffer attacks on civilians from US-backed thugs, and of course damage to infrastructure designed to hurt their economies. America's track record in this has not been great, and I doubt their strategy against China is fought with even more short-comings.
- dmdmmfmfm 7y ago
  The sad part is that no one wants to be part of China. This is like a forced marriage or worst a rape of other people’s liberty. Extremely one sided.
- TheSpiceIsLife 7y ago
  > Taiwan <snip>, but has a deal to keep the governments mostly separate until a certain date. I only dabble, occasionally, in reading things on the internet related to ROC (Taiwan) and PRC (China), but I've not come across anything supporting the idea there is a certain date for reunification, or that reunification is certain.
  - throwaway1997 7y ago
    There isn't. GP is confusing Taiwan and Tibet for Hong Kong/Macau. TW and Tibet are territories claimed by China whereas HK and Macau are indisputably Chinese cities but under a special arrangement which theoretically should give them more autonomy.
dzhiurgis 7y ago
TSMC and Foxcon are Taiwanese. Hard to believe this would happen. If it’s true - shame on Apple.
- t0ughcritic 7y ago
  Chinese money talks
jchiu1106 7y ago
It's the Republic of China flag. It represents the whole of China.
doener 7y ago
"I’ve validated it with the iOS 13.2 Beta, and it's official: Apple really did remove the Taiwan flag emoji 🇹🇼 from iOS for users with their region set to Hong Kong or Mainland China. This change appeared in 13.1.2" https://twitter.com/_danielsinclair/status/1180603673967153153?s=21 https://twitter.com/_danielsinclair/status/11806036739671531...

94 points by Red_Tarsius 7y ago

> Meanwhile, an app showing the location of Hong Kong police deployments has been barred from the Apple app store. This is a very weird addition to this article, given that the app was rejected by app review, not banned (it wasn't on the app store in the first place), and was already approved before this article's publication date.

ackbar03 7y ago
It's not weird once you realize the hongkong free press is an extremely biased anti-beijing publication
- throwaway1997 7y ago
  It's pro-human rights and socially liberal. I guess there is a lot of intersection because Beijing systematically oppresses people but the bias isn't explicitly anti-Beijing
  - throwaway5542 7y ago
    No, it’s more like Fox News. They have a specific agenda.
    - exabrial 7y ago
      /.+News.*/ has an agenda
  - wendyshu 7y ago
    I don't think it's unreasonable to say it has a anti-Beijing bias.
- fuckccp 7y ago
  Yeh yeh yeh, Long live Queen Carrie Lam and Emperor Xi
noah-kun 7y ago
Seems appropriate to mention in an anti-China propaganda piece.
- dmdmmfmfm 7y ago
  Other countries don’t have a specific department for propaganda. China does.
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wendyshu 7y ago

Oh for Pete's sake, what next.

whoevercares 7y ago

Even as a native mainlander who sometimes being identified as a paid propagandist, I don’t understand why and I didn’t receive any information from my upstream contact

noah-kun 7y ago
China likely trying to ease the transition.
- jobigoud 7y ago
  The transition? Are you mixing up Taiwan and Hong Kong?

JohnJamesRambo 7y ago

This isn’t the reality distortion field I want to live in. Tibet exists, Taiwan exists. This is so silly.

deevolution 7y ago

Countries come and go countless times in human history. Who's surprised by this?

noah-kun 7y ago

Taiwan and Tibet are part of China, but has a deal to keep the governments mostly separate until a certain date. China has made some efforts to make the changes gradual. There has been some resistance to the changes, but they are largely exaggerated or directed and paid for by the West. The U.S. official behind the murderous Contras in South America now heads a program that's paid at least $29 million to HK terrorists. Having read the CIA documents that instructed the contras to destabilize and overthrow South American states, I have no doubt there is effectively anti-China Contras/terrorists receiving the same or similar instructions and training. China is using it's power to dramatically improve parts of the world that the US has become dependant on exploiting. The West is very interested in creating a barrier between China and the Pacific to limit it's access to trade with the Americas and elsewhere. Thankfully China has many contingency plans for this and Trump's off-putting style of diplomatic relations may lose the US from friends. A better world could emerge with China's leadership, but HK, Taiwan and elsewhere may suffer attacks on civilians from US-backed thugs, and of course damage to infrastructure designed to hurt their economies. America's track record in this has not been great, and I doubt their strategy against China is fought with even more short-comings.

dmdmmfmfm 7y ago
The sad part is that no one wants to be part of China. This is like a forced marriage or worst a rape of other people’s liberty. Extremely one sided.
TheSpiceIsLife 7y ago
> Taiwan <snip>, but has a deal to keep the governments mostly separate until a certain date. I only dabble, occasionally, in reading things on the internet related to ROC (Taiwan) and PRC (China), but I've not come across anything supporting the idea there is a certain date for reunification, or that reunification is certain.
- throwaway1997 7y ago
  There isn't. GP is confusing Taiwan and Tibet for Hong Kong/Macau. TW and Tibet are territories claimed by China whereas HK and Macau are indisputably Chinese cities but under a special arrangement which theoretically should give them more autonomy.

dzhiurgis 7y ago

TSMC and Foxcon are Taiwanese. Hard to believe this would happen. If it’s true - shame on Apple.

t0ughcritic 7y ago
Chinese money talks

jchiu1106 7y ago

It's the Republic of China flag. It represents the whole of China.

doener 7y ago

"I’ve validated it with the iOS 13.2 Beta, and it's official: Apple really did remove the Taiwan flag emoji 🇹🇼 from iOS for users with their region set to Hong Kong or Mainland China. This change appeared in 13.1.2" https://twitter.com/_danielsinclair/status/1180603673967153153?s=21 https://twitter.com/_danielsinclair/status/11806036739671531...