Comment by patwork

2 days ago

Same energy as turning the gun emoji to a water gun. You don't help anything by getting in the way of what people are trying to communicate.

Seems to me they are trying avoiding accusation of bias/politics and stop 'Apple autocorrects to X' going viral

  • Coding in an explicit denial of word like “Trayvon Martin” is a clear political choice. If they want to be politically neutral they would avoid choosing politically charged word to block.