How the law responds when emoji are the weapon of choice

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News.com.au
Marilyn McMahon and Elizabeth Kirley
6 Dec 17

NEARLY everyone is familiar with emoji, those popular icons that appear in text messages, emails and social media platforms. Emoji are often used as lighthearted adjuncts to text, or to soften the blow of a message.

Emoji can be viewed as overly simplistic in some contexts. For example, government officials were questioned when Foreign Minister Julie Bishop conducted an interview using just emoji, and described Russian President Vladmir Putin using an angry face.

A 2017 study found that use of emoji in work emails reduced perceptions of competence.

But emoji can be taken very seriously in the context of the law. The use of emoji has challenged lawyers, judges, and lawmakers in several countries. In a legal context, emoji are increasingly recognised not as joke or ornament, but as a legitimate form of literacy.

Making a criminal threat via emoji:

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I found this article to be very, very, interesting. I had already heard about emoji becoming its own real language. But it never dawned on me to consider that in legal terms. Will we ever have emoji contracts, or emoji newspapers? Will there be emoji books? Who knows? It seems possible sometime in the future it may happen. And then the entire Earth will have one single common language.
 

[Frank Cannon]

[RoosGirl]

[Frank Cannon]

Silly girl. That's not an emoji. That's a fridge magnet.

[RoosGirl]

Silly girl. That's not an emoji. That's a fridge magnet.

What's the difference?

[Frank Cannon]

What's the difference?

One is put on a refrigerator and one is put on a forum post or text. Geesh. Get with the program.

[RoosGirl]

One is put on a refrigerator and one is put on a forum post or text. Geesh. Get with the program.

And what are their respective functions?

[Frank Cannon]

And what are their respective functions?

One is to say something with a cheesy picture when you are too lazy to use words and the other is to fall to the floor every time you close the fridge door. Geesh. Get with the program.

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Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Yeah. Maybe. But can you say it in emoji.

[Frank Cannon]

Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.[/size]Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Yeah. Maybe. But can you say it in emoji.

You effing with my gal?

[RoosGirl]

Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.[/size]Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Yeah. Maybe. But can you say it in emoji.

I don't know about anyone else, but I can.

[RoosGirl]

One is to say something with a cheesy picture when you are too lazy to use words and the other is to fall to the floor every time you close the fridge door. Geesh. Get with the program.

Oh, magnets don't stick to my fridge doors.

[Frank Cannon]

Oh, magnets don't stick to my fridge doors.

Of course not. Magnets don't stick to wood. You are probably still using one of these since you are a prepper.

[RoosGirl]

Of course not. Magnets don't stick to wood. You are probably still using one of these since you are a prepper.

What else is there?

[RoosGirl]

Heh, I see it looks like a fridge magnet now. 

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You guys are dark. I feel like I'm in a party that I wasn't invited to. 

[Frank Cannon]

What else is there?

You can step up in the world with an Icy Ball.....

[RoosGirl]

You guys are dark. I feel like I'm in a party that I wasn't invited to. 

As I said on another thread, I'm a vanilla kind of girl.  Not dark at all.

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You effing with my gal?

Yeah Frank, I'm moving in on you. Soon she will be my gal. With gams that go all the way up.

You guy enjoy yourselves. I gotta hit the hay.

[Frank Cannon]

Yeah Frank, I'm moving in on you. Soon she will be my gal. With gams that go all the way up.

You guy enjoy yourselves. I gotta hit the hay.

You can have her. She is a pain in the ass. She is confused about how fridge magnets work.

[RoosGirl]

You can have her. She is a pain in the ass. She is confused about how fridge magnets work.

They sure as hell don't stick to my fridge.

[Frank Cannon]

They sure as hell don't stick to my fridge.

[RoosGirl]

I must be losing my touch, I usually don't have to work so hard for that.

[Frank Cannon]

I must be losing my touch, I usually don't have to work so hard for that.

I thought you usually took matters into your own hands....

[RoosGirl]

I thought you usually took matters into your own hands....

I generally favor a hands-on approach.