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Re:Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorshi... by est on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:59PM (#28624809)
> Is it me or is this an extremely clumsy way of doing censorship?

yeah it's literally called MiAdBlacklistConfig, to stop certain ads from displaying in the browser.

So it's developed by the AD department. What do you think.

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Re:Lithuania says throw away Chinese phones due to censorshi... by throwaway4good on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @11:13PM (#28624868)
Yeah. It looks more like some sort of advertisement blacklist and not the broad censorship mechanism it is being interpreted as.

Could really be interesting to see the full list of words.

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