In July, Russia's online watchdog asked the youth wing of Russian President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party to investigate whether or not the use of gay emojis was in violation of Russian law. Petersburg representative Vitaly Milonov told state news he would urge Russia's consumer rights body to ban Apple's iOS8 if they did not release a special version of the operating system without the LGBT emojis or market them with 18+ stickers. There have previously been several complaints about Apple's LGBT emojis in Russia, however this is the first known instance of a police investigation being launched into the matter. If found guilty, Apple could be fined up to $15,000 and face a country-wide ban on its goods if it does not pay the resulting fine. According to the documents published by Gazeta, Kirov police found this reason enough to begin a formal investigation and showed sample of the emojis to a judiciary panel who are due to decide whether the symbols constitute a "danger" to the welfare of minors under the controversial Russian law. The sequence combines the white flag emoji with the transgender symbol to create the blue, pink and white transgender pride flag. The case was opened after local attorney Yaroslav Mikhailov filed a complaint in August with the local prosecutor about the emojis included on Apple's iOS 8.3 operating system. If you want to try it for yourself, you can use a ZWJ sequence of the White Flag emoji and Male with Stroke and Male.
This trick only works on Android devices while using the newest version of WhatsApp. The reason you can see symbols like the no sign, your favorite emoji, accents in a French. The sequence combines the white flag emoji with the transgender symbol to create the blue, pink and white transgender pride flag. Under this law, often referred to as the law on "gay propaganda," police in Russia's Kirov region have opened an administrative case to investigate whether the emojis available on Apple's products that portray same-sex couples, or characters carrying LGBT Pride flags, are in violation of Russian law. Either way, no smartphone maker has purposefully chosen to offer an anti-LGBT emoji on their device. technology company Apple over its inclusion of gay emojis in its operating system, according to police documents published by Russian news site .Ī controversial Russian law which came into force in 2013 banned the public display of a wide range of LGBT symbols and images, classifying them as dangerous for promoting "nontraditional family types" to children. Russian authorities have opened an investigation against U.S.