It's fine as long as they don't ban ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs like U+130BA.
You gotta fight for your right to arty.
‘Sexual’ use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don’t know, the rest of the developed world doesn’t want to live with gun violence, and they... don’t. Your argument is absurd, though, because most knives and apples aren’t designed to kill people, and serve other purposes. You can prevent access to one thing (like pipe bombs) without preventing access to other things (like knives). As always, intent and purpose matter, and it’s not all-or-nothing.
There is no other nation in the world which compares to the US. The US is the world power and it’s citizens have more rights than any other. So you cannot say that what ‘works’ for some fly by night westernized counties will work for the current flag ship of human progress.
As an American citizen, this is one of the most laughable statements I've heard all day.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's even worse when you consider how it's based in binary gender thinking. Are a transgender person's nipples allowed, or not? It ends up being such a mess. A gender-neutral standard would be better.
> It's even worse when you consider how it's based in binary gender thinking. More like even better. Glad to see a website exercising critical thinking. > Are a transgender person's nipples allowed, or not? Is it sexually suggestive? Then no. > A gender-neutral standard would be better. Well that's a policy ignorant of reality.
> Glad to see a website exercising critical thinking.
So "critical thinking" to you means rejecting the notion of gender being anything but binary and static, despite scientific evidence to the contrary? Interesting definition you've got there.
> Is it sexually suggestive?
Nope, no subjective opinions or controversial judgment calls there.
> that's a policy ignorant of reality.
It's a policy that doesn't allow neanderthals to deny others' reality, and IMO the fact that it makes those neanderthals uncomfortable is a bonus.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a friend who is transitioning f2m and recently had top surgery. They were extremely excited that being topless was no longer a crime. It helped put some things into perspective for me.
Not a crime in NY.
Nope, but it'll get you a lot of unwanted attention to the point where it might as well be.
Re: ‘Sexual’ use of eggplant and peach emojis banned on Facebook, Instagram
#115Emoji use is just the latest step in the "Language Game", Facebook seems to be quite reactionary these days.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank god nude photos where male nipples cover female nipples are still fine.
It’s a shame they don’t allow female nipples but allow male nipples. Clear cut sexism, and is there no way to sue them?
Female breasts are a sex organ, male breasts are not.
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Lots of guns aren’t designed to kill people either.
Indeed. But nobody is advocating a ban of water pistols, potato guns or other toys. Just the stuff that are actually lethal weapons.
You might not think that a skirt is a lethal weapon, but there's an entire family of martial arts that trains to use it as such.
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#118I'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.
It would make sense to respond to a complaint for a direct message that contained these emojis.
You edited your comment after I replied, so now my reply doesn't make sense. It's common practice in HN to note when you make an edit.
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#119It's fine as long as they don't ban ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs like U+130BA.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lots of guns aren’t designed to kill people either.
Indeed. But nobody is advocating a ban of water pistols, potato guns or other toys. Just the stuff that are actually lethal weapons.
I wasn't just talking about water guns or toys. Plenty of actual firearms were not designed to kill people, and would do a pretty poor job of it if you tried.
Realistically, a pair of golf clubs would be more dangerous in trained hands than whole swaths of competition and small varmint guns.
This is the problem with society at large - rather than seek to understand gun culture, you dismiss it as being all about killing people, and that couldn't be farther from the truth.