Today in the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung", one of the leading German newspapers: The comment regards an UTC decision to refuse the acceptance of emojis for Olympic rifles, as well as the fact that Apple's IOS 10 displays U+1F52B as a toy water pistol, as an attack on Free Speech:
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/apple-emojis-die-zensur-der-symbole-14404026.html?printPagedArticle=true#pageIndex_2 "Das Unicode-Konsortium wirkt wie eine Neuauflage des Orwellschen Wahrheitsministeriums, das die englische Sprache durch eine um schädliche Begriffe gereinigte, neue Sprache ersetzte und die übriggebliebenen Worte „unorthodoxer“ Nebenbedeutungen entkleidete." ("The Unicode Consortium appears like a reissue of Orwell's Ministry of Truth, which replaced the English language by a new one, sweeped clean from harmful terms, and which removed "unorthodox" connotations from the rest of the words.") - Karl Pentzlin
