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> Can you imagine if, gasp, your computer could render a Taiwanese or Palestinian flag? The horror! Just playing devil’s advocate but I kind of get it If th
by yieldcrv 2y ago
> Can you imagine if, gasp, your computer could render a Taiwanese or Palestinian flag? The horror!
Just playing devil’s advocate but I kind of get it
If there was a separatist region you felt wasn’t legitimate or entirely delusional in both their existence and their aims, and third parties started giving them legitimacy with flags that your former neighbor made up at night, you would be like “cmon, wtf, cut that out”
obviously I can’t relate to this in any way, but I could imagine it could occur the longer I live
- immibis 2y agothey still have a flag though. Tying the flag to the country code is controversial because you believe only countries should get country codes, but if they weren't limited to two characters, flag code TAIWAN is hopefully about as controversial as flag code RAINBOW or LASERKIWI or HARVARDSPORTSBALLTEAM. They're all kind of silly though. If you want an image use <img>...
- makeitdouble 2y agoTo note, the original emoji set was half funky and didn't pretend to represent anything political. That's where French oversea depts flags ( Martinique, St Pierre et Miquelon etc.) or UK flags (england, wales etc) are included even as those are not countries. I think we're taking emoji way too seriously in average. Perhaps we should start including popular flag propositions that got shut down by the officials (like the Australian flag redesign contest) just to make it clear that emoji are just words and nothing more.