Apple and Microsoft block rifle emoji

Posted by | June 17, 2016 19:00 | Filed under: Good News

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It’s much easier to get a gun than a gun emoji.

Unicode, the technical organization in charge of selecting and overseeing emojis, debated and ultimately decided to remove a rifle from its list of new emoji candidates in 2016, according to multiple persons who attended its quarterly meeting last May. The decision was led and championed by one of tech’s biggest companies: Apple…

According to sources in the room, Apple started the discussion to remove the rifle emoji, which had already passed into the encoding process for the Unicode 9.0 release this June. Apple told the consortium it would not support a rifle on its platforms and asked for it not to be made into an emoji. “I heard Apple speak up about it and also Microsoft,” one member present at the discussions told BuzzFeed News.

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4 responses to Apple and Microsoft block rifle emoji

  1. Mike June 17th, 2016 at 19:19

    Interesting … Either one could give a billion for lawyers and organizing costs without missing a beat…slactivism at it’s finest
    How exactly will this help ….???

    • bpollen June 18th, 2016 at 02:27

      Empty gestures to counter the Evil Co. image?

  2. Amersham46 June 17th, 2016 at 21:23

    Soon the howling about freedom of speech will start from the gun nuts

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