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by ifqwz 1340 days ago
When I said "wrong thoughts" I was thinking politics - far left and far right, generally. But yes, also porn, copyright, etc.
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It feels like your definition of "wrong thoughts" combines the legal content discussed in the OP with calls for political violence and intellectual property violations. While I agree both are removed by Apple I think the author's choice to separate legal content from illegal content was intentional.
One of their victories is you equating "far left/right" to "calls for political violence"
In my experience, when someone talks about "political ideas that are censored" they mean:

1. Ideas that are directly trying to silence others or obscure empirical reality.

2. Ideas that actually can be said but are marketed as being "censored" or "counter culture" to give weight to a narrative.

3. Vague gestures to some other idea that is supposedly neither 1 or 2 but is unable to provide any evidence

I would love to add a fourth entry but in the same way it's inaccurate to assume this is 1 (Apple's "victory", apparently), it would be equally inaccurate to not categorize your views in 3 until you were able to provide specific evidence.