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Reminds me of when Boeing removed the 🤡 a few years back because workers were shit-talking management on Teams. Removing emojis is petty nonsense. Maybe they feds should move from spoon 🥄 to 🤡 until that gets banned.
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Showing profound levels of insecurity here.
I am sitting here trying desperately to understand this.
They got rid of an emoji. Specifically 🥄, which is a default emoji.
How?
It's on every computer and platform. Did they call slack? Tell them to remove the emoji? If they did, how did slack remove a fucking default emoji? Are they blocking the Unicode?
What the actual fuck.
In the article it says it's removed from the video conference software used internally. The admins apparently can do it there.
It's like China banning Winnie the Pooh for hurting Xi's feelings...
So I guess... censorship?
Why do these government agencies keep complying in advance? Why are they giving ground in little ways for nothing? Is some of the GSA leadership loyal to Trump?
It's an executive branch department of which the president is the head.
No, that's reductive BS. The GSA is an independent agency of the federal government:
[T]he term refers only to those independent agencies that, while considered part of the executive branch, have regulatory or rulemaking authority and are insulated from presidential control, usually because the president's power to dismiss the agency head or a member is limited.
Established through separate statutes passed by Congress, each respective statutory grant of authority defines the goals the agency must work towards, as well as what substantive areas, if any, over which it may have the power of rulemaking. These agency rules (or regulations), when in force, have the power of federal law.
The president DOES NOT have the power to fire people from this agency, nor change its rules without involving congress. Congress made this agency, and the president's job is to oversee its administration. Despite being the head of the executive branch, the president doesn't have direct authority over the GSA.
Who appoints the leadership?
The president does. Who makes the laws (including the law creating this department)?
The president does
Which is the answer to the question "Is some of the GSA leadership loyal to Trump?"
this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025
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