A 12-year-old girl is facing criminal charges for using emoji 🔫🔪. She’s not alone.
Marlene Breverman stashed this in Emoji
You understand words in a particular way,†said Dalia Topelson Ritvo, assistant director of the Cyber Law clinic at Harvard Law School. “It’s challenging with symbols and images to unravel that.â€
A grand jury in New York City recently had to decide whether 👮 🔫 represented a true threat to police officers. A Michigan judge was asked to interpret the meaning of a face with a tongue sticking out: :P. Emoji even took a turn in the Supreme Court last year in a high-profile case over what constitutes a threat.
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To me, there's no good context for putting emoji weapons in a communication.
let's go to the gun range? I'm out knife shopping?
Those don't seem like things a person would want to say in emoji. Too open to ambiguity.
8:01 PM Feb 28 2016