Hot take: if you think Apple should get rid of the "anti-gay emoji" (a technical feature of Unicode, not an explicit thing), you should also get rid of images, as they can be used for the same purpose. And text altogether. This is a people problem, not a technology problem. https://twitter.com/HeyItsShuga/status/1098041971459928065 …
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people can use ascii letters to spell english slurs, the solution to this is not removing the ability for a computer to process those characters... and there's plenty of prior art in the form of word filters!
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I remember when someone found that if you pick the Wingdings font and type NYC, you get a poison symbol, the Star of David, and a thumbs up. ... and of course it’s on Wikipedia
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And MS fixed it in the cutest way: when they came up with Webdings they made NYC spell out


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Well, they did seem to censor certain characters already - and they're not even hateful: https://www.revk.uk/2018/10/unicode-dicks.html …
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