Words for genitalia are banned, as are certain medical terms relating to genitalia, including ‘irrumination’. The report found that from the 165,000-word dictionary built into Android KitKat, 1,400 English words have been deemed inappropriate. Researchers used the built-in spell checker in the iOS API developer platform to test more than 250,000 words and discovered that suggestions do not apply for words including 'abortion', 'bullet', 'suicide' and 'pornography' when they have been mistyped. Google isn’t the only company guilty of partly censoring words in messages a report in July discovered Apple does similar.Īnalysis from news website Daily Beast found that iPhone handsets running iOS 6 will not suggest corrections for words considered to be sensitive or provocative.
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