This week is another sad week for Myanmar as a country. Little known Penal code[note]”Of Offences Relating to Religion.” The Penal Code of Myanmar. Rangoon: Myanmar National Government Publication, 1974. 104-05. Print.[/note] Subsection 295(a) “Deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs” and Section 298 “Uttering words, etc; with deliberate intent to wound religious feelings” has claimed 3 more victims.
I believe diversity is humanity’s greatest asset. But Apple’s new emoticons are the perfect example of diversity gone wrong. It’s what happens when over-zealot well-intentioned digitally-ignorant people tries to fix what’s not broken. Applying diversity to emoticons is a perfect case of such groups pushing their myopic views on our digital world.
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