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Re:Which Emoji Scissors Close? by michaelt on Friday January 03, 2020 @04:36AM (#21944522)
If you're making such an app, you'd be filtering the content for obscenities anyway. I mean, Unicode already includes a swastika character [1]. Wouldn't you just add the gun emoji to your list of censored words and emojis?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika#Written_characters

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Re:Which Emoji Scissors Close? by shard on Saturday January 04, 2020 @06:34AM (#21954328)
Per your link, the swastika is a religious symbol for a large number of people for a long time. It's strange to suggest that it is an obscenity just because a small number of people used it to mean something bad.
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