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Re:Apple will finally fix issue that blocked searches for 'A... by porphyra on Friday April 02, 2021 @02:20PM (#26674202)
The fact that Reddit's search algorithms and Apple's filters find a strong correlation between Asians and porn suggests that to be the case. The 100x was just a rhetorical example.
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Re:Apple will finally fix issue that blocked searches for 'A... by alpaca128 on Friday April 02, 2021 @06:49PM (#26676754)
Your point about correlation with porn shows absolutely nothing.

Every site hosting pornographic content finds a strong correlation between anything and porn. I literally just searched "foo" on Reddit with NSFW turned on and the results are 100% porn, ranging from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure to Foo Fighters related...content.

Do people watch porn with asians? Yes, and also with about every second noun that appears in a dictionary. I highly doubt Apple's filters are applied in a fair way. Do they block queries containing gingers? Germans? Japanese? Which continents, ethnicities and countries does Apple find too sexy? I don't think a company should be in a position where this kind of question has to be asked.

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Re:Apple will finally fix issue that blocked searches for 'A... by porphyra on Friday April 02, 2021 @07:18PM (#26676910)
What? Searching for "foo" had no porn results. "German" only had two porn results out of the top 50. "Asian" was almost all porn. I did all three searches with the same logged-in user with "show NSFW" enabled in the user settings.

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/bjtDEfG

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