> I wonder what the boardroom meeting for this was like. Despite the outcome, I doubt the devs were pitching censorship as the reason for implementing this.

Looking at https://helgesver.re/articles/macos-vulgar-word-flags for the list.

I imagined it something like this:

  "Mao?" -"Bad, we think? But we want to allow 'LMAO'"

  "Next. Stalin?" -"Hmm... Uncle Joe. Only a few million killed. Not great, not terrible, let's keep him"

  "Pol Pot?" -"How many died in the Killing Fields?" "Not enough, keep him off the list".