How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters

Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by eridius on Thursday June 23, 2016 @04:26PM (#11964043)

Your comment is ridiculously extreme. They were not "undeniably" in the wrong. You think they were wrong, but that is an highly subjective opinion. In fact, I don't even agree that they were wrong to do this at all. I think it's perfectly reasonable to argue against the inclusion of more gun imagery in Unicode.

Also, if you think Apple was wrong, you must also think that Microsoft was (they voiced support), and everyone else at the meeting who agreed with the move. As the article says,

> Davis confirmed to BBC News on Monday that "there was consensus to remove" the emojis, but that he couldn't comment on the details.

So it's clearly not just Apple that thought this was the appropriate move.

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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by oh_sigh on Thursday June 23, 2016 @06:15PM (#11964698)

Thank goodness for apple and other members which rejected the starter pistol/rifle proposal. Imagine how many mass shootings we've prevented by people not being able to communicate their plans using the rifle emoji.

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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by nv-vn on Saturday June 25, 2016 @08:41PM (#11978841)

Just like how North Korea isn't "undeniably" wrong in censoring speech to such an extreme. This is a very 1984-esque "solution" to a problem -- don't want to acknowledge positive use of guns? Good news, we can just erase them from our language! The way we treat emoji has some very serious similarities to Newspeak.

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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by eridius on Saturday June 25, 2016 @09:43PM (#11979029)

That's absurd. Nobody's censoring anything here. Apple not wanting to add a new gun emoji is in no way preventing you from talking about guns. Emoji isn't a replacement for English and nobody is forcing you to "speak" in all emoji.

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