GoogleGoogle’s mobile keyboard now blacklists “Chinese virus” from autosuggest

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[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Literally, the only “odd bad words out” in the screenshot are the terms “global warming is a hoax” and, “radical Islam/Islamist.”

This tells us that Google’s intent is not simply to be the prudish police its users never asked for, and most likely don’t even know exists. The inclusion of these two terms suggests that the tech giant might also have a political agenda to cater to.

For the record:

GLOBAL WARMING IS A HOAX!!!

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The word "virus" has been removed from my autosuggest.

I have to type it in each time.

WTF?

[–]dittendatt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's creepy as fuck to think that the messages you get from your friends are, while not propaganda itself, shaped by propagandistic forces. We saw this first with the feed algorithms, that would filter out friends wrongspeaking, and promote friends rightspeaking. People wisened up and moved to group chats. Now with these keyboards, even the group chats will be controlled.

And at the same time, because of quarantines, the last safe outlet we have - speaking to each other IRL, is being taken from us. Very dark times ahead.