Apple led effort to remove rifle emoji from Unicode 9.0
- 8 years ago
According to a Buzzfeed report published Friday, Apple and Unicode — the organization that determines which emojis end up on your iPhone or tablet - have decided to remove a rifle emoji from an emoji keyboard that will debut in June 2016 The debate over the emoji dates back to a May 2015 meeting but has recently drawn mass attention in the wake of the shooting massacre at Pulse nightclub in Orlando and Wednesday's gun control filibuster