What about bananas and carrots?
And cherries and water droplets.
‘Sexual’ use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram
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#22Seems very contradictory given that Instagram is 50% bikini photos.
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#23Why not also ban the gun emoji? Oh wait this is an American company where violence is OK but sex is taboo.
They changed it to a water pistol, but this is the Internet where we have to be outraged anyway.
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#24Madness.
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#25Why not also ban the gun emoji? Oh wait this is an American company where violence is OK but sex is taboo.
Have you seen the gun emoji recently?
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#26There goes any argument that Mark Zuckerberg wants Facebook to uphold the “ideal of free speech”.
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#27Why not also ban the gun emoji? Oh wait this is an American company where violence is OK but sex is taboo.
Already (kinda?) happened. A few years ago FB and Apple and Google and all the other major platform companies “nerfed” the gun emoji by reworking its appearance from a drawing of a realistic gun into a drawing of a water gun.
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#28Does this apply to private chats? Because I'll send these in a joking way to my girlfriend and some of my other friends. I know that Facebook messenger parses chats and won't allow porn site links and torrent magnet links to go through.
They even parse/censor private/encrypted chat locally on the device, they cannot mind their own business.
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#29> The Facebook Community Standards language is quite broad, not naming the emojis specifically but referring to “[commonly used] sexual emojis or emoji strings” as criteria which qualify as “Suggestive Elements.” > “[Content] will only be removed from Facebook and Instagram if it contains a sexual emoji alongside an implicit or indirect ask for nude imagery, sex or sexual partners, or sex chat conversations” > “We ar…
> > “[Content] will only be removed from Facebook and Instagram if it contains a sexual emoji alongside an implicit or indirect ask for nude imagery, sex or sexual partners, or sex chat conversations”
I was worried Facebook's contractors were reading the conversations with my wife! I'm sure glad to know that Facebook is reading them just to make sure an emoji isn't used inappropriately! /s
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#30I'm not really sure what group they're catering to here. Everyone who is at least 12 years old knows what those emoji mean. My guess is they must be doing this in order to help protect women from sexual harassment. What they're really doing here is trying to ban an entire way of thinking. That's just not going to happen.
I'd say the group of people at the iOS App review board.