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Russia 'may ban gay emojis' under 'propaganda' law
Russia may ban emojis depicting same-sex couples from social media if a state watchdog rules they infringe controversial "gay propaganda" laws.
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Religion keeps getting in the way.
How exactly do you enforce any emoji ban? That's what I don't get. They're bits on a computer that get sent around and they're in private messages.
There's a saying in Russia: Суровость законов компенсируется не обязательностью их исполнения Directly translated it means: the severity of a law doesn't necessarily compensate for its effectiveness Basically, in Russia, especially recently, there's a law for everything, but mostly because no one follows them. This is just more of Putin's political horseshit.
Sounds like America. Here the saying goes that it's only illegal if you get caught. Essentially, especially in civil laws, many things are technically illegal, but the laws are so poorly enforced that no one really takes them seriously. Quick example is the law against firing for whistleblowers. Technically, you can't do that, it's illegal to retaliate. In practice, the only way to win that case is to record your boss literally saying that you're being fired for reporting a violation of the law. Which does not happen, since the law doesn't require a cause to fire people.