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Indonesia Moves To Ban Same-Sex Emojis On Messaging Apps (thestack.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Indonesian government has this week demanded that instant messaging apps available in the country remove all same-sex emoticons from their platforms, or face heavy sanctions. While homosexuality is not illegal in the country, it remains a controversial issue in the Muslim-dominated country. Now in the latest effort to crackdown on gay rights, Indonesian authorities want to ban emojis, stickers and emoticons which depict same-sex couples, the rainbow flag, and any symbol that symbolises the lesbian, bay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. Apps that have been targeted by the demands include the popular Asian messaging app LINE, Whatsapp, Facebook and Twitter. The Indonesian Communication and Information Ministry added that a particular concern was that children would find the bright coloured stickers appealing.
Damn those bay people!
I think you meant to type LBBT. Was just going to comment on that.
Has proofreading also been banned (ganned?) in Indonesia?
It's OK for non-whites to be homophobic.
SJWs have lower standards for non-whites, especially if the homophobes are Islamic - because the SJWs are awfully quiet when Islamic "culture" says EXECUTING gays is OK.
Hell, if you're Islamic you can be misogynistic, too.
Emojis that promote goat fucking are just fine. Encouraged, even.
It's the start of the slippery slope toward total barbarism, and happens when you let any kind of extremist medieval magical thinking dominate your society. Just say no.
I assume they're going to ban any depictions of clearly male or female faces, together with icons like the love heart, lips and handholding and so on, otherwise folks could type in scandalous things like 'male heart male' or 'male handholding male' or 'female lips female'
The claim is men that martyr themselves get 72 virgins when they die.
What do the women get when they martyr themselves?
That’s all you need to know about Islam.
How is the christianist wing of the Republican Party (AOT,K) any different than any other fundamentalist sect of a religion?
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No difference except terminology.
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My little cousin saw a rainbow flag once and then he limp-wristedly minced to an all-male cabaret, breaking through walls in his way like a terminator. Very dangerous.
You think a brightly colored emoji will be more appealing than a vagina.
I am not talking about Muslims in general, because generalizations are impossible, but Islam itself is founded on some deep insecurities of men.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
So, how do the Republitards reconcile agreeing with the Muslitards?
Does that cause any cognitive dissonance for you to realize you're the same kind of idiot?
Or do you deep down accept that you're no different than the Taliban?
I suggest they add an emoji of Prophet Mohamed. No, no, it's not what you think. It's a blank space, as you're not allowed to depict him except as a blank space.
If they took it a step further and banned ALL emojis, I could give that two thumbs up [insert two-thumbs-up emoji]. :-)
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Religious nutjobs create law without any connection to reality. Film at 11.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
This article is about yet another Muslim country implementing homophobic laws, and half of the comments are already immediately teeing off on Christianity without even a nod to the article itself. Nothing constructive or insightful . . . just an attempt to deflect and scream "but the other team is even worse!" Fuck you . . . you're not helping.
Well after banning Vimeo, Imgur and dozen of other "porn" sites, Indonesian government now plans to censor Unicode Standard Characters U+1F46D U+1F46C? What's next? U+1F54D? U+1F385?
I live in the Lesbian Bay area. There is a big LBBT community here.
Food idea! I am so sick of this LGBT propaganda!
I support the bay rights!
They're worried children will turn gay because they like rainbows? I'm in awe.
Seriously?
I'm guessing that somebody went out of their way to look for something like this and then was "shocked! shocked!" to find them.
Whatever happened to live and let live?
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When did that happen?
Oh, they mean rainbows? Right!
How do you talk about the public stoning you're going to without the homosexual emojis?
It would appear that the US is not the only country using the "Think of the children" line to squeeze in questionable policies. I know it should be obvious, but it just seemed to stick out.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
I think you meant to type LBBT. Was just going to comment on that.
Has proofreading also been banned (ganned?) in Indonesia?
I think you mean poofreading.
Another reason religion should not be imposed by a state.
Wow, it's 2016 and we're still worried about what the sky wizard thinks about where penises are or are not going. Really, this is what this is about. Let's also consider this a country whose women for the most part (97.5%) get to enjoy the practice of getting their clitorises cut off. Let that fact detonate in your brain.
Fuck these asshats and their shitty religious ideas.
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
I can see them apply to LGB, but not T.
Warias are a pretty big thing in Indonesia, and they have about the same standing as Transexuals in Iraq. When Obama was a child in Jakarta, his primary care giver was a Waria named Evie who acted as his nanny. One of their most famous television personalities is Dorce Gamalama, basically their equivalent of Oprah, not of RuPaul. Sex changes are not as common as, say, in Iran, despite the fatwa issued Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1987 (Iran is second only to Thailand in number of surgeries, and the state tends to pay), but they are still pretty common in Indonesia.
There are a couple of clerics, such as Ichwan Syam or Haji Mulyadi, who are pretty outspoken. They are pretty much the people on the council in the only province which will assigning caning as a punishment for homosexual activity. And that's typically only if you do not fit in otherwise. But as long as the people earn a good living, they're generally accepted within society (not always an easy thing to do, but then, is it anywhere?). It's also not entirely uncommon for a women with a lot of male children and no female children to decide, arbitrarily, that the youngest will become calabai. Or to accept people being homosexuals, or lesbians, if they are well respected otherwise, and keep their activities low key, though not quite to the point of closeting.
Here's an ITV interview with a documentary filmmaker who has covered the issue relatively extensively:
http://beyondthebox.org/tales-...
How long would it take to discover 3 unichar sequences like ðY'©ðY'ðY'© and ðY'ðY'ðY'?
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And finding out which forum websites don't mangle them...
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Screw you, Indonesia, and have fun banning every emoticon...
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p.s. screw you too, slashdot, for still totally failing at supporting basic non-US characters. That is a *remarkably* flat butt.
What will Indonesian peaceniks use now?
Fucking fags man, coöpting everything and getting it b&...
Why not remove all the sexual emoticons, and just have a Male, and Female emoticon.
Then you can make the MF,FM,MM,FF, or etc. emoticons.
What pretty stickers, I want to be gay too!
See title. My buddy was there over New Years 2015 at a hostel, cops came by and told them not to have any New Years celebration. A few people gathered on the beach anyway after midnight to hang out. Locals came by with clubs and machetes and attacked a few locals who were hanging with the foreigners. Cops came by after a long and highly suspicious delay, and let all the attackers off. Indonesia mostly sucks. That said, Bali and the Gili islands are pretty awesome.
Goat-fuckers!
Here's what Jews believe of others from their talmud! Everyone's a Nazi, right? Spain, Russia, France, Poland, Germany kicked them out. Here is why:
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1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."
2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."
3. Sanhedrin 59a: "A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death."
4. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."
5. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."
6. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Do not save Goyim in danger of death."
7. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."
8. Choschen Hamm 388, 15: "If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth."
9. Choschen Hamm 266,1: "A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people."
10. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."
11. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."
12. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: "When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves."
13. Nidrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L: "Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night."
14. Aboda Sarah 37a: "A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated."
16. Gad. Shas. 2:2: "A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl."
17. Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: "If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is NOT responsible."
18. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: "It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. It is permitted to kill him even before he denounces."
19. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: "All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples."
20. Tosefta, Abda Zara VIII, 5: "How to interpret the word 'robbery.' A goy is forbidden to steal, rob, or take women slaves, etc., from a goy or from a Jew. But a Jew is NOT forbidden to do all this to a goy."
21. Seph. Jp., 92, 1: "God has given the Jews power over the possessions and blood of all nations."
22. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 156: "When a Jew has a Gentile in his clutches, another Jew may go to the same Gentile, lend him money and in turn deceive him, so that the Gentile shall be ruined. For the property of a Gentile, according to our law, belongs to no one, and the first Jew that passes has full right to seize it."
23. Schulchan Aruch, Johre Deah, 122: "A Jew is forbidden to drink from a glass of wine which a Gentile has touched, because the touch has made the wine unclean."
24. Nedarim 23b: "He who desires that none of his vows made during the year be valid, let him stand at the beginning of the year and declare, 'Every vow which I may make in the future shall be null'. His vows are then invalid."
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So let's not try to make jews heros or saints, or even victims. You can clearly see what they think of you all from their own laws and yes, non-jews are Goy/Goyim and Gentiles from above, quoted straight from their own belief systems.
Their age old enemies in arabs aren't better. A religion of peace that gives you no choice but to say "there is no god but allah" and if you don't, off with your head by sw
They're more like women, and shouldn't be regarded as men. If a man wants to have sex with another man, that's up to him, but I will never see him as a true man until he forsakes that behavior and "Mans Up." Look, if gay men or women want to be in relationships with each other, fine, but don't try to tell people it's normal. It's not normal, it's a severe imbalance in the psyche. Plain and simple. So I will never, ever, teach my children that it's OK to be gay. I've raised them to be balanced in their gender reality. Not so-called "roles." There's a reality to being and man and a woman, that popular culture will never eradicate.
It's impossible to enforce such a ban. Unless they're going to make their own mobile operating OS an messaging apps
Maybe this will stem the tide of straight people glancing at their phones and turning gay before Indonesia runs out of people. Common sense solutions to real world problems at last!
They should ban ALL emojis.. They're fucking retarded.
Hmmmm ... haven't yet met a human that can do this ... .. sounds like a neat trick, or a good theme for a movie or a book
Proofreading even