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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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