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Comment by AraceliHarker | Hacker News Reader

It is a mainstream website mirroring the mainstream opinion in Japan so the target of your very valid criticism is the Japanese public, not Apple.

Similar would be criticizing Apple to not include foxnews.com in the list. It's not Apple's fault that American culture has brought us to such a website becoming mainstream.

I won't call it a "mainstream site" but agreed with your other points.

This is not a “list of allowed websites”.

I don't think it makes a difference, if anything, it's worse that it's in their autocomplete list.

Yes, that does make a difference and no, it’s not.

An autocomplete list is most likely generated based on statistics and contains sites that are being _used_, and an allow list is moderated and contains sites that are _condoned_.

Look I love to hate on Apple as much as the next guy but asking that question really doesn't seem like it's being done in good faith.

Do you really think that Apple is subtly supporting an anti-Chinese, anti-Korean, pro-Japanese racist agenda through... an URL autocomplete list?

Or is it more likely that it's a legacy list that has probably not been vetted by a human in quite some time if ever?

It's still worth interrogating even if it's an oversight.

jeez they even have apahotel dot com in there! next thing you know Tim Cook will be blaming all crimes on zainichi!

Try asking Apple Japan.

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