Indonesia has asked all social media and messaging platforms to drop emoticons featuring same-sex couples, a government official said Thursday, after popular application Line removed some of its emojis for the local market.
Conservative Indonesian users of Line and competitor Whatsapp have complained about the presence of gay-themed emojis on the applications.
“Line has dropped its LGBT stickers and we have asked other platforms to do the same,” said Information Ministry spokesman Ismail Cawidu, using the abbreviation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.
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Indonesia known for their homophobic and judgemental leaders and now one should be surprised for this requests. But to all social apps that just apply the changes locally or worldwide are cowardly.
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