The phrase blocklist for the Chinese lanaguge is a lot larger (surprise, surprise). It about 281 KB for Simplified Chinese, 325 KB for Traditional and 160 KB for Cantonese, against 28 KB for English.
apparently there are `shouldShowTaiwanFlagEmoji()` and `deviceIsChinese()` functions as well but that doesn't have anything to do with this database.
Claude dumped Apple's word list, and obviously wrote the article too.
I can't focus and read this shit. The other article on the frontpage https://blog.nns.ee/2026/11/02/renault-hack/ also used LLM for the work, but I think a human wrote it (or he's using an LLM that's managed to sound human). It's so readable!
Edit: a snippet from the slop:
> There is no public API
> I looked. NSSpellChecker, UITextChecker, NaturalLanguage and UILexicon don't expose vulgarity.
I think the fucking problem is, each sentence is supposed to convey information. Here "I looked." is prominent, but is it information? No, it's fucking useless. Remove it and it doesn't even change the information. Meanwhile readers' brains are trying to process why the author included this sentence, it must have value?
It’s adaptive non-censorship
It was added in 23 so there's potentially 3 years of updates.
Edits: This comment shows differences between 15.6 and 26.2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50358223
Edit: I'm reliably informed that it's enforced at the domain level via a bloom filter stored in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/WebContentRestrictions.framework/WCRFilter-2025-09-29.plist
It's darkly funny that the UK is so far gone these days that people literally do not believe it.
And this is just DNS I assumed unless also keep a record of which ip addresses they actually resolve to.
To be clear I’m interested from the technology perspective and not advocating our UK friends evade government pr0n censors as a form of political protest…
If you're having distinct dns blocking errors, that's not Apple or it's a profile that's been set on your device.
┌───────────────┬────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │ Article (15.6) │ My Mac (26.2) │
├───────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Total entries │ 199,019 │ 199,940 │
├───────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Vulgar │ 1,050 │ 850 │
├───────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Offensive │ 663 │ 727 │
├───────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Sensitive │ 2,558 │ 2,748 │
├───────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Oedipus │ vulgar │ sensitive (sex topic) │
├───────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ cooties │ vulgar │ clean │
├───────────────┼────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Biden │ clean │ now tagged politics topic, still no tier │
└───────────────┴────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────┘
These are unchanged:
- Trump is still sensitive with the politics topic. The lowercase card-game word "trump" is still
clean.
- Obama, Putin, Vance and Harris have no tier. Musk still isn't in the dictionary.
- Tom and Mick are still offensive, and pee, poo, niggle, underling, blacklist and Isis are still
sensitive.
- idiot is still sensitive, and now also has the catch-all "sensitive context" topic.
Words in the capitalized sensitive list that the article doesn't mention include Saddam, Grindr,
Oedipus/Oedipal, TERF and Viagra. Trump is still the only living politician among them.The cultural burnout and second-hand AI overdose many of us are suffering. It's a form of mental pollution, and it's getting harder to breathe.
If the shoe fits....
How do I make iOS let me swipe “fucking” everywhere? fucking
fucking fucking fucking!! After typing it manually two or three times it then swipe completes in this particular text field in this app. I've heard about adding a contact with the words, but that is ridiculous, so I have held out hoping Apple will eventually come to their senses, like a fool.
This doesn't make “fuck” swipeable either… unless I type it once, and keep it in the text field!
Can’t believe they don’t fix it year after year.
Putin clean
Stalin clean
It’s surprising to me that “trump” would get the same classification. Given that he’s the current president of the US, I’m sure people intentionally type his name all the time. I don’t want my keyboard to steer me away from writing out “trump”. And typos autocorrecting to Trump don’t seem like a big deal either. Would anyone be offended by the text “don’t forget to bring your Trump to band practice”?
Trump could be offended. It is obviously there to avoid offending Trump.
And it is not considered "offensive" but "sensitive".
People are reading too much into this.
And it worked! It has been so much censored that neither of us even knew that word.