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  • X website reverts water pistol emoji to realistic gun

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    coolfactor said:

    A symbol is *not* the thing being symbolized. Why are people scared of a drawing of a pistol?

    Txitter may be "an irrelevance" to Xbit and others, but it is still used by millions. 
    Who is expressing fear of a drawing of a pistol?  Can you point to examples of this?

    Unfortunately, messaging can be harmful. Messages can create fear. If someone can easily send a picture of a real gun to someone else, it's an avenue of potential threat and harm. X is a conduit between two such people, and by reverting, they are letting their American 2nd-A mentality blind them to the larger harm that can be done with their platform. Sending an image of a water pistol does not have the same impact to a scared recipient as receiving a picture of a real gun. X is in control of this.
    Are you in favor of censoring pornography? Violent video games? Certain gifs? Movies with guns in them? Should I not be allowed to send movie clips to my friends if they have guns? Should videos of police activity not be allowed to be shared, because it might trigger someone (pun intended)? Please let us know why or why not.
    timpetuslinkman

  • X website reverts water pistol emoji to realistic gun

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    xbit said:
    X is an irrelevance these days.
    Is that why President Biden's handlers announced he's not running again on Twitter?
    timpetus

  • X website reverts water pistol emoji to realistic gun

    thejbrothejbro
    "X is an irrelevance." Is that why President Biden announced he's not running again on X?

    As for those who think that constant messaging can desensitize people: then are you in favor of censoring pornography and violent video games? Why or why not?

    IMO, you are only displaying your effeminacy programming. 
    timpetusentropys

  • How to lock apps, hide apps, and find them again in iOS 18

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    VictorMortimer said:
    thejbro said:
    Increasingly, when Apple talks about "privacy", what they really mean is, "Kids having experiences that are 'private' from their parents, and spouses from spouses." Which of course, lots of the time, means porn. Steve Jobs famously said, "If you want porn, get an Android." Tim Cook's Apple increasingly proves how naive that statement was. 
    Steve Jobs was a prude who should have kept his opinion to himself.



    Steve Jobs was still in touch with a world that his own devices helped us lose. All in the name of "privacy", which is only a market segmentation differentiator ("We're not Android"), disguised as a virtue. Apple sells products to kids that parents pay for that separates kids from parents. It's the greatest scam going. Besides social security of course, but that's for a different forum. 
    Ofer