Apple is censoring words and phrases relating to politics, religion, democracy and human rights — which customers can engrave on its products — in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, CitizenLab has revealed. An interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, CitizenLab’s research found that part of Apple’s mainland China political censorship bleeds into both Hong Kong and Taiwan. “Much of this censorship exceeds Apple’s legal obligations in Hong Kong, and we are aware of no legal justification for the political censorship of content in Taiwan,” said the report that came…