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- ▶ 2:22 Sonal Chokshi Then we have emojis, which like punctuation marks can be put in subject lines and therefore have to go through the Unicode consortium to be approved and vetted.
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- ▶ 22:27 Sonal Chokshi Also joining us is Jenny Lee, former New York Times reporter, who is a member of the Unicode subcommittee on emoji and who recently led the effort to get the dumpling emoji, which is where we start the conversation.
- ▶ 24:57 Jenny Lee Yeah, and I found out that emoji are regulated by the Unicode Consortium, which is a non-profit organization 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:37 Fred Benenson Yeah, and to their credit, the Unicode Consortium has an amazing list of emoji criteria where they say, okay, here's what we're looking for for emoji. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:27 Fred Benenson But Unicode makes a really good point. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:30 Sonal Chokshi And the case of, um, I believe Apple, Google, and Facebook, Charlie Warzel at BuzzFeed wrote a really detailed article investigating this and about how they sort of help suppress, as part of the Unicode consortium, the rifle emoji. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:32 Jenny Lee Part of the goal of EmojiCon is to open up that discussion so it is not just held at the Unicode level. 4 times in the scene