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Apple, Facebook and Google ban rifle emoji from Olympics update
Telegraph ^
| 6/20/16
| Cara McGoogan
Posted on 06/23/2016 8:11:00 PM PDT by Callahan
Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft have joined forces to stop a rifle emoji from being added to the catalogue of images available to their users on their smartphones.
The new emoji was due to join the keyboard line-up in an update this month. But members of the Unicode Consortium, which is responsible for regulating emoji, voted unanimously to remove it in a move the body described as "bizarre and unusual".
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apple; banglist; guns; liberalfascism
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posted on
06/23/2016 8:11:00 PM PDT
by
Callahan
To: Callahan
Yeah you have to watch that - it might cause your gun to get up and blast the FedEx person off the porch.
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posted on
06/23/2016 8:11:55 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
To: Callahan
The pistol emoji will still be availableThey had to. Otherwise gadzillions of posters on social media would be left speechless.
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posted on
06/23/2016 8:14:30 PM PDT
by
disndat
To: Callahan
<< Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft >>
My retirement fund owns stock in these. I’m so ashamed.
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posted on
06/23/2016 8:16:15 PM PDT
by
HokieMom
(Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
To: HokieMom
Don’t be ashamed. That is where the money is.
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posted on
06/23/2016 8:22:14 PM PDT
by
disndat
To: Callahan; dayglored; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; 5thGenTexan; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; ...
Another article on the emoji rifle ban, and Apple's part in pushing it, along with Facebook and Microsoft. . . This one from the UK Telegraph. PING! Pinging Dayglored for Microsoft's participation in banning the rifle emoji inclusion in the Olympics update.
Apple and Emoji Rifle
Ping!
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posted on
06/23/2016 8:26:19 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
To: Callahan
They removed it when they found out the biathlon didn’t actually have anything to do with the competitors’ sexual preferences or stamina.
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posted on
06/23/2016 8:26:46 PM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
To: Callahan
OOOoooooooo!! Little, tiny, scary gun cartoons!!!!!!
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posted on
06/23/2016 8:35:24 PM PDT
by
KosmicKitty
(Waiting for inspiration)
To: Callahan
Still bombs and hypodermic needles.
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posted on
06/23/2016 8:40:27 PM PDT
by
Mercat
(Boredom is a problem on the inside. And happiness, too, is an inside job.)
To: Swordmaker; Abby4116; afraidfortherepublic; aft_lizard; AF_Blue; amigatec; AppyPappy; arnoldc1; ...
>
Pinging Dayglored for Microsoft's participation in banning the rifle emoji inclusion in the Olympics update. Yepper, comin' up...
No scary rifles for Microsoft, No Sir, not even hunting rifles ... PING!
You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".
Thanks to Swordmaker for the ping!!
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posted on
06/23/2016 8:41:53 PM PDT
by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
It’s even worse than that, Day. These were Olympic .22 LR bolt action target rifles used for the pentathlon!
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posted on
06/23/2016 8:52:04 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
To: Mercat
Still bombs and hypodermic needles. And the scary .357 looking revolver!
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posted on
06/23/2016 8:53:07 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
To: Swordmaker
It’s clear, way too many guns in the olympics and they abuse horses, and the athletes are slaves, and it’s way to much emphasis on competition, everyone should beta medal, and ................. We need a more PC Olympics.
To: morphing libertarian
Its clear, ay too many guns in the olympics and they abuse horses, and the athletes are slaves, and its way to much emphasis on competition, everyone should beta medal, and ................. We need a more PC Olympics. You forgot all those balls made out of dead animals and others made from rubber from rain forests. . . not to mention the evil competitive nature of the games themselves. Why there are actually more losers than there are winners! Think of their poor self-esteem that will be badly damaged. All those who participate should receive Gold Medals. . . and the better athletes should be required to wear handicappers to make them equal of the least of those they compete against. Only then would the Olympic games be truly a good and fair games. Oh, and no scoring. The awards should be awarded on based on need, not merit.
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posted on
06/23/2016 9:11:06 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
To: Swordmaker
Let’s geta list going I’m demonstrating Sunday in Rio if I don’t get a mosquito bite.
To: Callahan
This was the terrible thing:
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posted on
06/23/2016 9:23:33 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: Swordmaker
I find it very disappointing and frustrating to see Apple involved in any of this nonsense. For me, I hardly use the emojis except for some showing expressions.
This is a very stupid thing to alienate customers over.
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posted on
06/23/2016 10:55:22 PM PDT
by
Gator113
(~~Vote Trump 2016~~ Just livin' life my way. Don't worry, everything's gonna be alright. 👍)
To: Callahan
I am so sick of these pussie Techie companies. They are effing embarrassing. Sheesh!
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posted on
06/23/2016 10:57:14 PM PDT
by
Chgogal
(Obama "hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls..." CMH)
To: SkyDancer
Every liberal is a totalitarian thug
And liberals run all those companies.
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posted on
06/24/2016 4:20:13 AM PDT
by
stinkerpot65
(Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
To: Callahan; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...
The new emoji was due to join the keyboard line-up in an update this month. But members of the Unicode Consortium, which is responsible for regulating emoji, voted unanimously to remove it in a move the body described as "bizarre and unusual".Combined PING! and DANG!
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posted on
06/24/2016 6:25:24 AM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(Cuckservative: a "conservative" willing to raise another country's ideology in his own country)
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