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Police are arresting people for making threats with emojis — 😀 or 😟 ?

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  • ByRachel Rosen
  • OnApril 16, 2016
Emojis, or emoticons, have become increasingly common fixtures in our everyday lives. Described by one court as the “little cartoon face that can be added to the text of an instant message . . . used to illustrate how the…

The Precarious Fate of Homosexual Emojis

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  • ByMargaret Mary Ochner
  • OnNovember 24, 2015
Shigetaka Kurita had a goal in mind when he set out to create the emoji: to invent a quick and simple way to express emotion without words. [1] Emojis are defined as “[a] small digital pictograph used in electronic communication…
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