Government agency removes spoon emoji from work platform amid protests
Government agency removes spoon emoji from work platform amid protests
According to a New York Times report, on Thursday, the U.S. government's General Services Administration (GSA) removed the spoon emoji as an option that
According to a New York Times report, on Thursday, the U.S. government’s General Services Administration (GSA) removed the spoon emoji as an option that users of its videoconferencing platform can select to express themselves.
The move comes a day after workers embraced the digital cutlery to protest the Trump administration’s “Fork in the Road” resignation offer.
From the outside it's funny to see how fast America is becoming like China. But I feel for you guys, and in the long run nothing is funny about it, only in the short.
China for all its faults has a functional government, growing economy and rule of law is strictly enforced. Would we be so lucky to become like China. The US is spiraling towards becoming like post soviet Russia.
dicksspoons out forharambefree speech 🥄🥄🥄
It's just cold out right now...
Shut up.
Oh splendid, the spoon gestapo’s here—scrubbing dissent one forking emoji at a time. Musk-Trump synergy in full clown mode: delete the 🥄, bury the evidence, pretend the resistance never happened.
Imagine feeling threatened by a utensil. These chuckleheads nuked spoons faster than a toddler bans broccoli. ”Fork in the Road”? More like ”Fork You”—but labor’s serving petty defiance with a side of Slack rebellion.
Keep licking that boot, boys. When your dystopian flowchart includes emoji purges, maybe the problem isn’t the spoons—it’s the rotted system they’re scooping out. My status? Still a shovel.
Seems like a violation of their first amendment rights. The government is not a private company.
If no one is willing or able to defend constitutional rights, they don't really exist any more. I hope there are legal cases being prepared at least, to challenge all this new censorship.
Emojis are characters... They can still be pasted in to text fields...
@MicroWave @atzanteol 🥄🥄🥄!
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So it's not so much a fork in the road as it is a chopstick.
Time for the knife emojus, I suppose.
The ides of March is coming up. Just saying.
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There really should be a pitchfork emoji.
If they want forks, they'll get forks. Just not in the road.
Edit: I should have said, "fork in the chode". It was right there.
there's also not a traffic cone emoji. Not that related, but I swear there was one.
When you take away the spoons, the only choice left is between
pitchforks and knives. Metaphorically. In Minecraft.O----
There is no spoon.
Could always sub with a spork.
I just don’t have the spoons for this.
That'll work for sure.
Salad Fingers has entered the chat.
Oh, FORK YOU Trump!
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@MicroWave Geeeeeenius