Is It Ever Wrong to Use an Emoji?

Germany’s War On Free Speech: Woman FINED For Using Thumbs-Up Emoji ⋆ Conservative Firing Line

The following article, Germany’s War On Free Speech: Woman FINED For Using Thumbs-Up Emoji, was first published on Conservative Firing Line. (Natural News) A German woman was fined €1,800 ($2,127) for using thumbs-up emojis under a post about a Swedish girl killing her migrant rapist. Prosecutors claimed she violated laws against “publicly approving an intentional killing” and mocked the victim’s migrant status. Nonverbal digital gestures are be…

Is It Ever Wrong to Use an Emoji?

When U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently texted his national security colleagues about upcoming war plans for military strikes against terrorists in Yemen, he obviously was unaware that Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, was inadvertently included in the chat. The ensuing debacle was made worse by Hegseth’s public denial of the March 15 text contents—“Nobody was texting war plans.”—as well as President Trump’s b…