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Off the top of my head, theu can censor at the keyboard level, at the SMS level, and at the camera level: https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/pgk8y3/xiaom

Off the top of my head, theu can censor at the keyboard level, at the SMS level, and at the camera level: https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/pgk8y3/xiaomi_camera_censoring_german_postal_voting/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/pgk8y3/xiaomi_camer...

ignoramous 5y ago
Yikes, yes: The Input Methods are totally under their (ROM's) control even if one uses a non-Xiaomi keyboard.
2Gkashmiri 5y ago
Free tibet", long live Taiwan independence", or "democracy movement". i sent this to a friend who owns a xiaomi phone and asked him to resent this back to me via sms. the message appeared just fine. note: i am from india so this might not be enabled on the phones here for now
- mekster 5y ago
  It may appear fine but your friend may be logged.
  - 2Gkashmiri 5y ago
    so what is the chinese government going to do to an indian who sent the text to someone ? force xiaomi to do something sinister to them?
    - mekster 5y ago
      Maybe keep getting scored until it reaches a certain threshold and gets marked for closer inspection of who the person is?
mzs 5y ago
I don't think that camera thing was censorship, instead bug: https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/pgk8y3/comment/hbf5km4/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/pgk8y3/comment/hbf5... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28395885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28395885
- heavyset_go 5y ago
  Censorship of the Taiwanese flag by Apple on the iPhone for users in China manifested itself as a crash whenever the Taiwan flag emoji was used[1]. [1] https://www.wired.com/story/apple-china-censorship-bug-iphone-crash-emoji/ https://www.wired.com/story/apple-china-censorship-bug-iphon...
  - disk0 5y ago
    > But Wardle found that in some edge cases, a bug in the Taiwan-censorship code meant that instead of treating the Taiwan emoji as missing from the phone's library, it instead considered it an invalid input. That caused phones to crash altogether, resulting in what hackers call a denial-of-service attack that would let anyone crash a vulnerable device on command. Which was also a bug—the conditions of which's existence are manifestly political (which I have zero desire/intent to defend here), but nonetheless an Apple-side bug that was patched eventually

ignoramous 5y ago

Yikes, yes: The Input Methods are totally under their (ROM's) control even if one uses a non-Xiaomi keyboard.

2Gkashmiri 5y ago

Free tibet", long live Taiwan independence", or "democracy movement". i sent this to a friend who owns a xiaomi phone and asked him to resent this back to me via sms. the message appeared just fine. note: i am from india so this might not be enabled on the phones here for now

mekster 5y ago
It may appear fine but your friend may be logged.
- 2Gkashmiri 5y ago
  so what is the chinese government going to do to an indian who sent the text to someone ? force xiaomi to do something sinister to them?
  - mekster 5y ago
    Maybe keep getting scored until it reaches a certain threshold and gets marked for closer inspection of who the person is?

mzs 5y ago

I don't think that camera thing was censorship, instead bug: https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/pgk8y3/comment/hbf5km4/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/pgk8y3/comment/hbf5... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28395885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28395885

heavyset_go 5y ago
Censorship of the Taiwanese flag by Apple on the iPhone for users in China manifested itself as a crash whenever the Taiwan flag emoji was used[1]. [1] https://www.wired.com/story/apple-china-censorship-bug-iphone-crash-emoji/ https://www.wired.com/story/apple-china-censorship-bug-iphon...
- disk0 5y ago
  > But Wardle found that in some edge cases, a bug in the Taiwan-censorship code meant that instead of treating the Taiwan emoji as missing from the phone's library, it instead considered it an invalid input. That caused phones to crash altogether, resulting in what hackers call a denial-of-service attack that would let anyone crash a vulnerable device on command. Which was also a bug—the conditions of which's existence are manifestly political (which I have zero desire/intent to defend here), but nonetheless an Apple-side bug that was patched eventually