If a user wishes to type phrases such as “Dictator Trump”, “NSA spies” or, surprisingly, “Australia is a very bad place”, “question your sexuality” or “on MDMA”, they will have to spell them out. Apple’s predictive text will not suggest these words. And, if a user attempts to swipe-type them, they will often stumble, changing “United Ireland” to “United Iceland”, for example, or “Tibetan independence” to “Tibetan independences”.
Assuming “Belfast confetti” is a euphemism for a car bomb, what the hell is jewish lighting supposed to be? Someyhing abt jewish space lasers or jewish weather control satellites? Idk
my attempts to swipe to type each of these:
dictator trump (also lets me say “death to trump” but my keyboard is probably desensitized to that by now lmao)
na spies
australia is a vey bad place (this one it got “very” but changed it when i swiped “bad” next)
question you sexuality (again, got “your” then changed it)
on mamma
unite ireland
siberian’s independence (it had tibetan but changed on the second word)
the abbreviations i’m not sure are malicious vs just being hard for swipe to type in general, since i can’t type either nsa or mdma on swipe to type regardless, but the others are fucked up. there should be some amount of weighting offensive terms lower in swipe to type so mistakes are innocent (for example the swipe motion for the word “funny” is very similar to the one for the word “cunt”, and i think it’s reasonable to not want to send that to a work chat by accident), but changing a previously chosen word because apple doesn’t like the message is beyond fucked.
The full list - https://swipeblocked.com/list
Examples - https://swipeblocked.com/
From the Guardian article
True
“Americans don’t want you to think Australia might be bad” may actually work as agitprop on settlers
“Belfast Confetti” and “Jewish Lightning” I would not have guessed in a thousand years
Assuming “Belfast confetti” is a euphemism for a car bomb, what the hell is jewish lighting supposed to be? Someyhing abt jewish space lasers or jewish weather control satellites? Idk
I’m pretty sure Jewish lightning refers to acts of insurance fraud by burning down one’s own business
The kind of old timey antisemitism where other white people single out jews for shit that scumbag business owners generally do
(Combines old and new school antisemitism) theyre using the jewish space lasers to burn down their own businesses and commit insurance fraud
I’ve heard that referred to as the Jewish torch many times in my life (thankfully none recently).
Lmao
my attempts to swipe to type each of these:
dictator trump (also lets me say “death to trump” but my keyboard is probably desensitized to that by now lmao)
na spies
australia is a vey bad place (this one it got “very” but changed it when i swiped “bad” next)
question you sexuality (again, got “your” then changed it)
on mamma
unite ireland
siberian’s independence (it had tibetan but changed on the second word)
the abbreviations i’m not sure are malicious vs just being hard for swipe to type in general, since i can’t type either nsa or mdma on swipe to type regardless, but the others are fucked up. there should be some amount of weighting offensive terms lower in swipe to type so mistakes are innocent (for example the swipe motion for the word “funny” is very similar to the one for the word “cunt”, and i think it’s reasonable to not want to send that to a work chat by accident), but changing a previously chosen word because apple doesn’t like the message is beyond fucked.
I was casually scrolling the full list when I found myself on “fuck my dad” and realized I was out in public.