Apple censors engraving service, report claims

Re:Apple censors engraving service, report claims by MajorSauce on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @02:54PM (#28225607)

"It found:

    1,045 keywords blocked in mainland China
    542 in Hong Kong
    397 in Taiwan

In contrast, Japan, Canada and the US had between 170 and 260 filtered words."

A bit unrelated, but I find interesting that keywords are "blocked" in China and "filtered" in Japan/Canada/US.

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Re:Apple censors engraving service, report claims by barbegal on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @02:58PM (#28225658)

I wouldn't read into blocked vs filtered. The report itself doesn't differentiate. This is just a BBC journalist trying to use varied vocabulary which is nicer to read.

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Re:Apple censors engraving service, report claims by cat199 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @03:17PM (#28225873)

or, it's a BBC editor ensuring that china 'blocks' and the west 'filters' because that matches editorial policy.

for all we know the original text from the journalist could say 'remove' in both places - without context, we don't really know.

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Re:Apple censors engraving service, report claims by jjulius on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @06:09PM (#28227777)

>... that matches editorial policy.

Can you please link us to their editorial policy that you're using as a source for this? For all we know this could just be an entirely speculative, biased asserition on your part - without context, we don't really know.

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