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Indonesia bans LGBT emoji; protecting nation’s children
The Indonesian government is on a mission to scrub messaging apps embraced by many of the nation’s 250 million people of same-sex emojis, stickers, and emoticons.
This week, the government succeeded in forcing Line, a Japanese-Korean messaging app, to remove same-sex and lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender (LGBT) themed stickers from its Indonesian-language store. And it’s coming for WhatsApp next.
“Social media must respect the culture and local wisdom of the country where they have [a] large numbers of users,” Ismail Cawidu, a spokesperson for Indonesia’s ministry of information and communication, said Feb. 10.
There is no law against homosexuality in most of Indonesia, but government officials in the Muslim-majority country have made a flurry of anti-gay rights statements lately, and some local governments have gone much further.
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