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Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by bell-cot on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @03:31PM (#45187504)
"Gun", "knife", and a fair number other emoji's are nerfed.

Perhaps too much for many HNers. But not nearly enough for anyone who's had a stalker.

Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by account42 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @04:54AM (#45195049)
Ah yes, because outlawing wrongspeak prevents people from communicating those concepts. People like you are giant eggplant emojis.
Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by bell-cot on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @05:59AM (#45195475)
Preventing people from "communicating those concepts" is your strawman, not the goal of the Unicode org. Regardless of whatever lip service they might give to "This little thing, plus Santa's naughty list, will magically make all the children nice" fantasies. They are a big org, doing normal big org things, and trying to dodge the Bad PR spotlight.

But glancing at your karma - are you contributing to a platform (HN) which outlaws wrongspeak, when you should start truly living your values?

Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by account42 on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @06:24AM (#45195648)
In the spirit of the discussion I'll respond in image form: https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/mister-gotcha-...

Perhaps Unicode should also include an emoji for this concept.

Re:Tomorrow's Emoji, Today: Unicode 17.0 by shmeeed on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @09:53AM (#45197735)
Do you assume that a stalker would be deterred by the lack of a knife emoji? I can't seem to follow the logic here.