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Emoji arrest raises questions of First Amendment protection
When a 17-year-old from New York City was arrested and charged last month with making terrorist threats, the primary focus of the charge was two emoji.
Osiris Aristy posted several Facebook statuses last month that may not have explicitly threatened police, but included gun emoji pointing at emoji of police officers, which the New York City Police Department interpreted as a threat. While the terrorism charge was dropped, the case has raised questions over whether text and emoji receive equal protection under the U.S. First Amendment.
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