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Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe by ChadNauseam on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:40PM (#50408306)
it’s not slurs at all. you can’t even swipe type “white people” or “black people” on ios. i don’t feel like these are offensive terms
Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe by gxs on Saturday November 07, 2026 @05:59PM (#50408853)
Insane - I wonder if you extrapolate what all this behavior by tech companies converges on

A complete slang language? A world where people don’t have a vocabulary to describe the difference between themselves? A utopia where no one sees race because you can’t type white people?

Probably a society that’s just primed to do what corporations want

Yes yes tinfoil hat and all that

Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe by spacebanana7 on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:39PM (#50409099)
Essentially people end up using dogwhistles to communicate for everything, deliberately leveraging widespread misunderstanding to get around censorship.

On TikTok for example, OF creators have become ever more indirect in communicating what they do - porn became corn which became the corn emoji, then that degenerated into any mix of base ingredient emojis.

On race, people use dog breeds to substitute for skin colour. In general, golden retrievers are used as a euphemism for white people and pit bulls for black people. The context of a video often seems plausible in a dog context - for example someone might say that pit bulls are 13% of dogs but 50% of dog attacks (actually referring to the African American murder rate per capita) (pit bulls are over represented in most dog injury stats but there’s no reliable figure for 13/50).

The overall effect has been to make the comprehension of the platform less.