Xiaomi’s blacklist of phrases sounds scary, but it may not be what it seems

Just remember it was western nations enthusiastically paved the way for content restrictions like this. Their reason? "Hate".

There must be something worse than lead in drinking water is the most wholesome explanation I could come up with blunders and blindness like this...

>On analysis of the file, I found that the vast majority of the records are actually related to sex, porn, and other smartphone brands. There are mentions of Tibet, Hong Kong, and other religious groups, however, mentions of the CCP and “China” are also included, too (albeit there are a lot fewer mentions of China and Chinese politicians comparatively). One would think that if this were a list that exists to censor content that may go against the Chinese Communist Party, all mentions of “China” would not be censored online.

It appears more likely that the phone is tracking sentiment and mentions of items on the list, as opposed to applying it as a strict list of censored phrases, and that's far more dangerous to users (obviously censorship would still be bad regardless).