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points by ftchd 9 hours ago | 0 comments
Anything can be censorship if you want it to, and then it means nothing.

Apple is free to make their product work however they want. They're not creating laws or public utilities.

[–] sli 8 hours ago
"Censorship" doesn't automatically imply "government censorship." This is absolutely Apple applying a chilling effect on its customers.
[–] dmix 8 hours ago
Lack of autocomplete doesn't mean you can't type something yourself and press enter.

That's different than youtube demonetizing or suspending you because you said some word in a video.

[–] preg_match 8 hours ago
There’s also levels to censorship, like the chilling effect the other commenter noted.

Apple, evidently, does not want you to say these things. They can’t outright ban phrases due to optics, so they do this instead.

[–] kayodelycaon 4 hours ago
It’s the other way around. Apple don’t want to suggest offensive phases and have it look like they wants you to say those things.

The middle ground here is to not suggest anything at all. Because they’re either pushing people to say something or preventing them from saying something.

The HN crowd forgets that average people don’t know how technology works. Everyone I know would see this as a good feature.