Apple: no more gun emojis!

VoodooMountain said:

That is a sad story and all but you said it yourself. She was bullied and emotionally fragile. Forming a society to comfort a minority is a recipe for unrest and disaster. More to the point, everything you do offends somebody somewhere and bowing to these zealots unveils a monotone and totalitarian world without freedoms or individualism.

Making these changes isn't proactive but instead admits there is a problem where there isn't one and panders to a certain audience both of which reinforce misguided ideology that flies in the face of the sport everyone on this board constitutionally enjoys and more importantly our freedoms.

Yes, I realize much of that sounds extreme and you're thinking to yourself it's a private company and its only emojis. I agree with that but we must realize the effects of these decisions. Again, these actions admit there is a problem that need to be rectified when there isn't one. Children teasing eachother and firearms are as old as this country.

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I mostly agree with you. But the government didn't say take the emoji out, nor had the people voted to have it there to begin with.

Why in the heck is the middle finger in there and a pile of poop?

I agree the bullying has been around forever. I dealt with it growing up the only mormon in my class in the South. But I didn't give a rats butt what people said. It seems to me that one of the reasons bullying is so effective in getting kids to kill themselves is the addition of anti-depressants which have the advertised side effect of suicide. My neighbors girl was on them, and I know for a fact they had just changed her meds and were looking for a new dosage for her when she killed herself. I don't know about the other girl and it is too soon to start asking.

I don't think this is political pandering either.

I do think it will not have any results though, because they can still type in whatever the want, attach a picture of what ever they want.

Maybe I am wrong.

Arizona_Mike said:

This makes their fonts non-Unicode compliant. You can choose not to implement individual Unicodes, or deimplement them like Microsoft did with fylfots (also silly) and still be compliant.

Mike

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So after doing some more reading it appears that the Unicode spec for emoji are less clear for extended font characters and Apple worked with the Unicode board on the new designs.

The change from a revolver to an obvious toy may change the context of some messages. Even more so, the apparent change in direction of the muzzle/nozzle.

It's just silliness.

Mike

I feel much safer now...

thanks Apple for making the world such a better place

My dear neighbor's daughter, the same age as my youngest, and now another girl from the same class have committed suicide. They were bullied into it.

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My wife and I view smart phones as being just as dangerous as a loaded gun. Even our 17 y.o. only has a dumb Tracfone.

Our youngest whines and schemes to get a smart phone. But it ain't gonna happen on my watch.

I feel terrible about these poor lost souls that are bullied into self harm. I'd like to see the perps stripped naked and put in stocks in the town square so their neighbors could whip some sense into them.

Kids have indeed been teasing each other for ages, but it's much worse now than ever before, and the dog pile, no accountability for your speech, group shaming has gone way to far.

Back in my day, if you said this kind of crap, it was considered "fighting words" and you knew that you had better put up (your fists) or shut up.

Today, they get away with murder and are protected by the nanny cult society.... and the country is going to hell in a hand basket.

Do whatever you must to protect your kids where needed, but raise them to be strong.... and pray for the wisdom to know the difference.

Even our 17 y.o. only has a dumb Tracfone.

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Actually that's what I have too.

But don't tell her. I'm well over 30 and wouldn't provide you with any leverage - not that it's needed.

I don't have a cell phone so what is a emojis?

I didn't even know there was a gun emoji, so I don't care.

Emojis are mostly a young person thing, and you should care because apparently Apple is going to try and use them as an anti-gun propaganda conduit. Seemingly harmless, but perhaps affective.

The Left makes its way in the world largely by bullying. All the while, preaching tolerance while being completely intolerant of any view that they don't agree with.

To the Left, intent is as good as results.

They can all GTH. (is that outlawed yet?)

It's an emoji. I don't think I am going to miss it.

In terms of sheer fatuousness, that ranks right down there with #Bring Our Girls Back.

Apple can ban all of the emojis they want. There will still be SEVENTY people shot this weekend in Chiraq.

I've never had the slightest desire to own any Apple product and this hardly does anything to change my mind.

You can have my money or you can insult my intelligence... pick ONE.

To me it is all about choice. They are attempting to limit a choice that I used to be able to make (if I had wanted to use it in the first place). The same as taking away my choice of what firearms I can own or where I can use them. I am all about letting everyone choose what they want to do as long as it is not dangerous to the population in general. Firearms are not as dangerous as automobiles in the scheme of things either. Never was an Apple person either.

Meh, emojis are stupid anyway, I've disabled the emoji character sets on my iPhone and iPad, I've never used a single emoji and don't miss 'em

Who cares what Apple does?

Without Jobs, Apple had ceased to innovate. Let's make the iPhone a little smaller...let's make the iPhone a little bigger.

In a few years when the economy collapses, half the country will be armed and the other half won't. At that point things will get hot and no one will be concerned about emojis.

What's sadder is that the media make it such a point to bring this to attention of the masses. Also makes me wonder how many upset actually used it. Just another of those cases where ppl are fine until something comes out then it's yet they'll continue to use services/shop at other places that have far more important and restrict policies regarding firearms... Policies nobody bothers to check on and yet again, just waits for it to be media-ized.