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points by patwork 1 day ago | 0 comments
Same energy as turning the gun emoji to a water gun. You don't help anything by getting in the way of what people are trying to communicate.
[–] Rastonbury 23 hours ago
Seems to me they are trying avoiding accusation of bias/politics and stop 'Apple autocorrects to X' going viral
[–] Y-bar 16 hours ago
Coding in an explicit denial of word like “Trayvon Martin” is a clear political choice. If they want to be politically neutral they would avoid choosing politically charged word to block.