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Re:Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong by datagram on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:57PM (#21184620)
From what we know about how the emoji blocking was implemented for mainland China, I doubt it's a benign feature just being misused: https://objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x34.html

Notably, the code specifically looks for the "CN" locale, and calls "removeEmoji".

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Re:Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong by musicale on Monday October 07, 2019 @04:18PM (#21185505)
Wow, that is depressing. I would definitely be ashamed to implement a feature like that.
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Re:Apple Hides Taiwan Flag in Hong Kong by kelnos on Monday October 07, 2019 @04:37PM (#21185693)
I could easily imagine (especially at a place like Apple where there's a ton of internal secrecy), the ticket for implementing removeEmoji() could have been pitched in a much broader fashion: perhaps there would be a "child mode" that would remove the middle finger emoji and others like that.
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