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by zeeZ 2253 days ago
What do you do if you can't access your Google One subscription because they've terminated your Google account for posting an emoji in a YouTube live stream, for example?
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YouTube Pro Tip: "Do NOT post an emoji in live streams"
which emoji? :)
A person (people?) got really angry about the eggplant emoji a few years ago:

https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/8

https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/3xtep0/socj...

What??

Can anybody explain to me (non American) why a fruit is offensive? And why people who find a fruit offensive are taken seriously?

Words and symbols sometimes have multiple meanings. Just because it looks like a fruit to you doesn't mean that's the message that was intended to be communicated by the author.

I don't support any kind of censorship, but if you can understand why a company might censor sexual harassment, threats of violence, or any other kind of message, it's pretty easy to understand that language/emojis/etc can be re-imagined to convey those types of messages.

It looks like a dick. Especially if you add (water spurt emoji) afterwards.
I'd think it would be easier to just s/n// that emoji on all incoming text rather than banning users.