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You will be removed from the universe, for violating it's laws.

Hello, friend! "It's" is a contraction, usually for "it is" or "it has." "Its" is the possessive form of "it," just like "hers" and "his." "Its" is used to show that something is owned by "it." In this case, the laws belong to the universe, so you want the possessive form: "for violating its laws."

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Sometimes my phone autocorrects it incorrectly on me, and I haven't noticed before I tap the "reply" button.

Autocorrect doesn't know sometimes "its" is the correct form.

Off-topic, but: yes! One of my big annoyances with autocorrect is it auto-uncorrecting "its" to "it's", "well" to "we'll", etc. Not sure what algorithm is used, but it seems to be fairly horrible (BTW - I'm on a Moto X now and used to have an iPhone; I've seen it in both).

The only way to do this would be to wait until enough of the sentence has been written to get context. Failing that, though...I just don't want it to touch those words at all.

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