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What difference does it make to disable the censorship function compared to fully removing it from the code base?

Considering that phone updates cannot be verified, every phone maker has the ability to secretly add such features at any time. And if the phone is link to a user account they could even do this in a targeted way.

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The thing is if these censorship is enabled, its going to be found out in a second by someone and explode in the news. All it does is that it deletes a word you typed on your phone or prevent you from seeing a piece of content that you want to see. It's going to be so obvious. It will not achieve the desired goal to censor in the first place and will make people realize what you don't want people to see. It will completely backfire. Given it is a broken and illogical plan, then it is highly unlikely there is a a multi year effort to build phones, sale to international markets, just to censor what people want to say and feed people about ccp propaganda. Even if someone is so stupid and want to do it anyway. What you fear is the censorship actually work. But you don't have to worry about that as it will not work.

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