This is exactly censorship via omission. What could possibly be the intent here other than to discourage use of these phrases across wide swaths of the population.

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jerf a day ago | parent [-]

Making it so they aren't in the pool of errors that can be made. I want to be able to type swear words, but I don't want profanity to come out when I try to swipe "duck". Socially, emotionally, and politically loaded phrases make sense to require a bit more care for.

That is a general answer to your question. It is not a specific defense of the particular word list in question. But I can say I've been surprised a few times about what I accidentally swiped on Android. Bitch isn't swipable but I have "bitchiest" readily available, for instance.

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Jtarii a day ago | parent | next [-]

Then have "child friendly mode" be an option and the adults can have "fuck" back. This isn't a difficult design problem.

This is just the type of thing that makes everyone hate modern technology.

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wat10000 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I like having a phone that doesn't spontaneously insert "fuck" into my messages because it thought I might mean that. That could lead to some unfortunate situations. When I want to use the word I'm perfectly capable of typing it.

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noitpmeder a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I get "fuck" and "duck". I don't get "the occupied territories", "the Hamas movement", and "Trayvon Martin".