March 2, 2016 at 22:41Will be planted not only for likes and comments, but also for emoji
In the late 1990s, Japan developed a new language, a mixture of ideograms and emoticons. Emojis have gained particular popularity after being picked up by smartphone makers. Today, emojis are almost everywhere, and schoolchildren love them very much.
For the phrase “Kill. Meet me at the library, ”framed by a pistol, knife and bomb emoji, Virginia police arrested a twelve-year-old girl. The story began in December 2014, when a high school employee in Fairfax discovered an Instagram post. The investigation led to the account owner, who was then accused of threats and Internet harassment. During the trial, the schoolgirl’s mother said that the girl published this message because of peer abuse. School officials said the threat was "not credible."
The world needs emoji experts. Otherwise, who will help the judges translate the words of the schoolgirls?
The judge will have to determine if this threat was real, and, if so, what punishment the girl deserves. And expertise will be needed here, and not just linguistic. As in the case of the case of a 17-year-old New Yorker who unsuccessfully placed an emoji next to him with an image of a policeman and a picture with three images of a pistol. The grand jury refused to convict the teenager.
In Russia, experts tested emojis in the iPhonein January 2016 at the request of the Russian division of Apple. Emoticons were divided into categories, and then searched for images that could harm the health and development of the child. Some emojis raised questions from experts, but experts did not see the propaganda and demonstration of smoking in a cigarette, since there was no image of a person, and they did not consider the image of alcohol to be propaganda of drinking alcohol.
Under the propaganda understand "the activities of individuals and (or) legal entities to disseminate information aimed at the formation and creation of attitudes and (or) stereotypes of behavior, or aimed at inducing or inducing the persons to whom it is addressed, to commit any actions or to abstinence from their commission. " And emoji is a graphic language based on images-symbols. Therefore, the idea that the user expresses depends on the sequence of the set of characters, Russian experts are sure.
Another important issue for the judicial system is whether emoji can be considered evidence? The meaning of messages in correspondence, which can be used as evidence in court, can vary greatly depending on the presence of pictograms in it.
The rapper's wife, named Elonis, took his texts published on Facebook as threats - because the topic was her murder. But the court sided with the rapper, because, firstly, it was about art, and secondly, after some phrases there was an emoticon with its tongue sticking out: P - proof that these are jokes.
But the abbreviation LOL did not save in 2013 the eighteen-year-old Justin Carter, who left a comment on Facebook: “Yes, I ******* on the head. I think I’ll shoot the kindergarten, I will watch how the blood of the innocent will pour, and I will eat another beating heart from one of them. ” A resident of Canada reported the incident to the police after she found Carter's address and determined that he lives near elementary school, and the guy first spent a couple of years in prison, and then was transferred to house arrest. The charge is a terrorist threat. It was necessary to use smiles. ¯ \ _ (ツ) _ / ¯
And about why they can still be imprisoned or at least dismissed from work, read this article . Be careful in the comments.
For the phrase “Kill. Meet me at the library, ”framed by a pistol, knife and bomb emoji, Virginia police arrested a twelve-year-old girl. The story began in December 2014, when a high school employee in Fairfax discovered an Instagram post. The investigation led to the account owner, who was then accused of threats and Internet harassment. During the trial, the schoolgirl’s mother said that the girl published this message because of peer abuse. School officials said the threat was "not credible."
The world needs emoji experts. Otherwise, who will help the judges translate the words of the schoolgirls?
What will the experts say?
The judge will have to determine if this threat was real, and, if so, what punishment the girl deserves. And expertise will be needed here, and not just linguistic. As in the case of the case of a 17-year-old New Yorker who unsuccessfully placed an emoji next to him with an image of a policeman and a picture with three images of a pistol. The grand jury refused to convict the teenager.
In Russia, experts tested emojis in the iPhonein January 2016 at the request of the Russian division of Apple. Emoticons were divided into categories, and then searched for images that could harm the health and development of the child. Some emojis raised questions from experts, but experts did not see the propaganda and demonstration of smoking in a cigarette, since there was no image of a person, and they did not consider the image of alcohol to be propaganda of drinking alcohol.
Under the propaganda understand "the activities of individuals and (or) legal entities to disseminate information aimed at the formation and creation of attitudes and (or) stereotypes of behavior, or aimed at inducing or inducing the persons to whom it is addressed, to commit any actions or to abstinence from their commission. " And emoji is a graphic language based on images-symbols. Therefore, the idea that the user expresses depends on the sequence of the set of characters, Russian experts are sure.
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Another important issue for the judicial system is whether emoji can be considered evidence? The meaning of messages in correspondence, which can be used as evidence in court, can vary greatly depending on the presence of pictograms in it.
The rapper's wife, named Elonis, took his texts published on Facebook as threats - because the topic was her murder. But the court sided with the rapper, because, firstly, it was about art, and secondly, after some phrases there was an emoticon with its tongue sticking out: P - proof that these are jokes.
But the abbreviation LOL did not save in 2013 the eighteen-year-old Justin Carter, who left a comment on Facebook: “Yes, I ******* on the head. I think I’ll shoot the kindergarten, I will watch how the blood of the innocent will pour, and I will eat another beating heart from one of them. ” A resident of Canada reported the incident to the police after she found Carter's address and determined that he lives near elementary school, and the guy first spent a couple of years in prison, and then was transferred to house arrest. The charge is a terrorist threat. It was necessary to use smiles. ¯ \ _ (ツ) _ / ¯
And about why they can still be imprisoned or at least dismissed from work, read this article . Be careful in the comments.