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A person (people?) got really angry about the eggplant emoji a few years ago: https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/8 https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/8 ht

• 101404 7y ago
  What?? Can anybody explain to me (non American) why a fruit is offensive? And why people who find a fruit offensive are taken seriously?
  • RadiantUnicorn 7y ago
    It looks like a dick. Especially if you add (water spurt emoji) afterwards.
  • Consultant32452 7y ago
    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.
• TuringNYC 7y ago
  I'd think it would be easier to just s/n// that emoji on all incoming text rather than banning users.