points by preg_match 9 hours ago | 0 comments
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.
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.