{"id":31594,"date":"2021-02-08T15:55:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T20:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31594"},"modified":"2021-04-07T16:56:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T20:56:53","slug":"iphones-adult-content-filter-blocks-anything-asian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/08\/iphones-adult-content-filter-blocks-anything-asian\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone’s Adult Content Filter Blocks Anything “Asian”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victoria Song<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Enabling Apple’s “Limit Adult Websites” filter in the iOS Screen Time setting will block users from seeing any Google search results for “Asian” in any browser on their iPhone.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

The search result exclusion was initially reported by the Independent<\/a>, but Gizmodo was also able to independently confirm that enabling the filter means any search tangentially related to “Asian” (i.e., Asian-American, Asian food, Southeast Asian, Asian restaurants near me, etc) will return a message reading “You cannot browse this page at ‘google.com’ because it is restricted,” or, “The URL was blocked by a content filter.”<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Shen also told the Independent that he had filed a report to Apple in December 2019 pointing out the issue, but that he never received a response.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

I was surprised to find that it really does seem to be blocking based on the keyword being in the URL. Google and Bing searches failed for me, as did viewing various<\/a> Wikipedia<\/a> pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Update (2021-04-07): Matt Binder<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>

Mashable has confirmed that in the latest iOS 14.5 Beta, the adult content filter no longer blocks web searches containing the word “Asian.”<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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