> Every year, if an emoji is not used enough, it's deleted.

This would be like deleting kanji, and would also require perfect surveillance of everyone's devices.

If you want Chat Control you don't have to hide behind weird recommendations about emoji

The proposal was tongue-in-cheek but the sentiment remains. There are way too many emojis and we should figure out a way to cull the herd.

You could easily do a zero-knowledge proof thing where you transmit a bitmask of emoji used over the next 365 days, with N bits randomly permuted. In aggregate, you'd still be able to count usage without saying definitively someone used or didn't use a particular emoji.