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Apple's Emoji Gun Control
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 16.8.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, emojis
Summary | Apple decided to replace the gun emoji with a water pistol emoji, but didn't say why they made that decision. Maybe Apple was influenced by the #DisarmTheiPhone campaign. However, there is a problem: if an Apple user sends an Android user a squirt gun emoji, the Android user will receive a gun emoji. Apple's decision breaks compatibility between different phones. Moreover, Apple wants people to be able to express themselves, so they should not remove tools that allow people to fully express themselves. We should be worried about the role of big companies in deciding and controlling what we can/can't say or what emoji we can/can't use.
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