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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.
I'd say it's a good thing.
You did mean that they'll eventually ban all emojis, right?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
And Americans are awfully quiet when christian politicians harass transsexuals with bathroom bills, and christians try to introduce bills that would authorize the killing of LGBTti people (fortunately, after the paperwork was filed, a judge ruled the attempt unconstitutional).
Muslim extremists, Christian extremists - they're just two sides of the same coin. Fortunately, the majority in both camps don't go along with this crap. As for the SJWs, they're so full of it that the only people listening to them are other SJW wannabes.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Hmm... 72 virgins... a 90s LAN party?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
People put way too much credence on what they read on the Internet. And reading it from "multiple sources" means nothing either, because all those "sources" just copy each other.
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.
The claim is men that martyr themselves get 72 virgins when they die.
I've never understood the appeal for this. I mean, it's the afterlife. I would assume that STD's are no longer an issue. I would think that two ridiculously attractive whores would be preferable.
Or maybe we've really misunderstood the true meaning of this. Perhaps Islam is really opposed to martyrdom. It could be such a bad thing in Islam that if you do so, you will nagged for all eternity by 72 women with whom you can never have sex.
What do the women get when they martyr themselves?
They get to be one of the 72 women who nag some stupid man to insanity for all of time. Hell, there's 72 of them and not an AK47 in site. They can stone him to death over and over.
Claim your dog is telling you the truth of the universe and how life should be run, they lock you up in a mental institution. Claim your "god" is doing the same thing and get tax exempt status...
I would also add on to that:
Mohammed would be proud of Muslim extremists
Jesus would condemn Christian extremists
Jesus taught that you should love those who are different
Mohammed was a warlord who practiced slavery
It is hard to believe that Islam stems from Christianity, they are opposites in so many ways.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
SJW is mainly a straw man.
Yes, there are people who are completely bonkers, but they are so few that I am more inclined at thinking it is the people that misuses SJW for everyone they don't like that are the bigger problem.
Hate to break this to you, but that's a ballot initiative, and not a bill.
Anybody with $200 and a paltry number of signatures can introduce a ballot initiative.
It's not a legislative action (that is, a bill), as you falsely stated in the beginning.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?