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> The most egregious example imo was the one banning engraving "8964" (literally just a 4-digit number) I have not found the full list for EU/USA but I suspect

> The most egregious example imo was the one banning engraving "8964" (literally just a 4-digit number) I have not found the full list for EU/USA but I suspect that 1488 might be censored in those regions. Looking at the other examples it seems to me that in communist states the anti-communist words are censored, and in democratic states, it’s the anti-democratic ones. In the communist state, the state provides the naughty list, while in the democratic states, the demos does, but in the end both systems censor in their own ways the expression of the symbols of the most feared opposition movements

filoleg 5y ago
The full list[0] of terms banned in the US is in the official Citizen Lab repo. There isn't a single number on that list, so no, 1488 isn't censored. >in communist states the anti-communist words are censored, and in democratic states, it’s the anti-democratic ones I guess we can add to that list of anti-communist words things as 人权 (human rights) and 新聞自由 (Freedom of the press), because those are banned by Apple for engravings in China too[1]. Then look at the words banned in the US, for comparison. None of those are "anti-democratic" or even related to politics, it is all just vulgarity-related words, such as words referring to genitalia or expletives. To be fair, I have to revise my earlier statement about "8964" being the most egregious example. I posted that comment before I noticed 人权 (human rights) on that list. 0. https://github.com/citizenlab/chat-censorship/blob/master/apple/us.txt https://github.com/citizenlab/chat-censorship/blob/master/ap... 1. https://github.com/citizenlab/chat-censorship/blob/master/apple/cn.txt https://github.com/citizenlab/chat-censorship/blob/master/ap...