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According to a New York Times report, on Thursday, the U.S. government’s General Services Administration (GSA) removed the spoon emoji as an option that users of its videoconferencing platform can select to express themselves.
The move comes a day after workers embraced the digital cutlery to protest the Trump administration’s “Fork in the Road” resignation offer.
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You get what you vote for America. Now the morons are running the asylum.
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Founding Fathers specifically create a system designed to protect their property from the tyranny of the majority (aka the poors)
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System breaks because a minor majority of the population puts a rich populist in charge
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Whats the name of this character? I vaguely remember it from childhood in Russia lol
The Tick
🥄🥣🍴🗡️🍽️🍴
So I guess… censorship?
This is Winnie the Pooh stuff.
That is about as clear cut an example of political censorship as there could possibly be.
When they fork with your spoon… They push you to consider the knife.
Okay. Why? Why have emojis at all? Why just ban one?
Bunch of spoons.
They use the spoon as a protest against the “fork in the road” email.
🔪
🔵🐚
Knives are better anyway
Not for soup
I eat my peas with honey, I’ve done it all my life; it makes them taste quite funny, but it keeps them on my knife.
All cutlery is rather inedible as soup.
So are 🔫.
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I miss ascii art! Back in IRC days when bandwidth was not great we could have really used the efficiency of emojis. Instead, you got sent a wall of text that looked like something and your entire internet slowed down for a minute.
Unless your IRC window wasn’t wide enough, in which case you got a wall of text that looked like nothing and it still slowed your Internet down!
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—Ð (I figure they may need a shovel now)
It’s like China banning Winnie the Pooh for hurting Xi’s feelings…
Some bootlicker said the Chinese are racist for that meme
Pretty sure I saw the comment you referenced but no, they said Americans were being racist because Pooh is yellow which you could probably argue, considering it originally also depicted Tigger (with a hard r) as Obama…
If the origin wasn’t in China. If you’d told me it started on /b/ then yeah it would have been meant as racism.
So I can certainly see the origin of the criticism, if not sticking with it after finding out the actual context.
They throw out the spoons, the workers will have to turn to knives
I am sitting here trying desperately to understand this.
They got rid of an emoji. Specifically 🥄, which is a default emoji.
How?
It’s on every computer and platform. Did they call slack? Tell them to remove the emoji? If they did, how did slack remove a fucking default emoji? Are they blocking the Unicode?
What the actual fuck.
In the article it says it’s removed from the video conference software used internally. The admins apparently can do it there.
Ah thanks for the clarification. The slack part bit was at the end. It’s too early in the morning.
Word filter?
Because we’re already in the “yeah, that may as well happen, why not“ -stage. Remember how crazy it got in 2020? We’re doing a rerun of all the.
Reminds me of a line from Earthworm Jim that stuck with me: “do you mock me, spoon? I shall be your master!”
Also, The Tick
