X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm

Post by gruez » Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 7:51 PM UTC

bastawhiz wrote: post #47

blackeyeblitzar wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What makes you think their “focus” is on emojis? This is probably just one among many things they’re doing. And it’s the right thing to do, because the political censorship of the pistol emoji is yet another example of how deeply biased tech companies have been in pushing their politics onto customers.

There's zero cost to leaving the emoji as it is. The designer of the new version claims he's still working on it , so I don't know how you can say it's not a "focus". It's a waste of time and money for purely ideological reasons.

Post by whycome » Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 7:53 PM UTC

blackeyeblitzar wrote: post #23

Great to see this change. The decision to get rid of the gun emoji was itself an act of political activism, highlighting the left leaning bias in many of these organizations - or at least the power given to the voices that pushed for those changes. It was a naked way to influence the culture around guns, and make them less visible. But it also killed funny uses of the actual pistol emoji. For the record, the underlyi…

Post by mcdonje » Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 7:54 PM UTC

kmfrk wrote: post #30

Does this retroactively change the meaning of the emoji people used, or is it only applying to future use of the emoji? (That would be a fun legal hypothetical.)

Post by yacine_ » Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 7:54 PM UTC

theultdev wrote: post #58

bastawhiz wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's zero cost to leaving the emoji as it is. The designer of the new version claims he's still working on it , so I don't know how you can say it's not a "focus". It's a waste of time and money for purely ideological reasons.

The change to the water gun was for ideological reasons. This is returning to the original. Without being the project manager, you're speculating on the amount of focus this had.

Post by bastawhiz » Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 7:55 PM UTC

theultdev wrote: post #58

bastawhiz wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's zero cost to leaving the emoji as it is. The designer of the new version claims he's still working on it , so I don't know how you can say it's not a "focus". It's a waste of time and money for purely ideological reasons.

The change to the water gun was for ideological reasons. This is returning to the original. Without being the project manager, you're speculating on the amount of focus this had.