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bell-cot 3 days ago

"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.

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shmeeed 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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account42 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Ah yes, because outlawing wrongspeak prevents people from communicating those concepts. People like you are giant eggplant emojis.

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bell-cot 3 days ago | parent [-]

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?

	▲	account42 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		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.