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Apple and the Gun Emoji

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59 points firloop | 1 comments | 06 Aug 16 23:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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grenoire ◴[07 Aug 16 01:46 UTC] No.12240692[source]▶
I think this is a ridiculous change by Apple, going completely against the idea of Unicode and consistent character displays across different devices. Author's suggestion is good, but I don't think that this was a necessary change by any means in the first place.
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matt4077 ◴[07 Aug 16 01:56 UTC] No.12240716[source]▶
I am 100% sure that it is 97% irrelevant, 2% within Apple's creative agency and 1% tots ok 'cause no gun > a gun is a pretty good heuristic.
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ensignet[dead post] ◴[07 Aug 16 02:09 UTC] No.12240743[source]▶

  cause no gun > a gun is a pretty good heuristic
So you're into whitewashing over the realities of general human experience, in favour of feel-good-huggle-cuddly-numpkins?
Manishearth ◴[07 Aug 16 02:54 UTC] No.12240836[source]▶
Guns are not part of the "general human experience" in most countries.
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1. lwhalen ◴[08 Aug 16 17:07 UTC] No.12249240[source]▶
Check your privilege.