I don't think that there should be a place on this list for accusing
people of dishonesty and / or spreading "neo-nazi junk"; and I don't
know what the marriage status of the editors has to do with anything.
The central concern of the FAZ article appears to be the role that
private entities play as gate-keepers of modern communication. That's
actually a valid concern (see issues like net-neutrality, algorithm
based search returns and news-feeds and the like). The fact that fine
distinctions of a technical nature may have been handled with less
precision than insiders would prefer, is perhaps sloppy, but pretty
typical for journalism in general.
None of that warrants the kind of loaded language used here.
A./
PS: must admit, I haven't followed the FAZ in a while, so I have no
personal knowledge of any changes that may have happened in recent
years, but in earlier times the Feuilleton (the section that this
article appeared in) used to be fairly liberal in outlook, certainly not
given to the extremist views that they are accused of here. And I can
detect no evidence that the charges below have any merit.
On 9/3/2016 9:30 AM, Marcel Schneider wrote:
...t there is obviously
some dishonest handling of core information by the FAZ authors, except
in the case that they were unable to understand the difference between
a character encoding refusal and an emoji property value change, or—as
of the PISTOL emoji—the difference between a character and a glyph.
... It seems that this FAZ article was written by some
unmarried, unresponsive beginners.
However, since they talk of the RIFLE character as if it didnʼt exist in
Unicode (and not only were “missing” amidst the iOS emoji), itʼs hard
for me to make any sense except by considering those utterings as a kind
of neonazi propaganda junk (despite of the renown of the newspaper itself)
due most probably to the fact that the responsible chief editor was on
holidays.
