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Canadian judge rules the thumbs up emoji counts as a contract agreement (www.engadget.com)
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A Canadian judge has ruled that the popular “thumbs-up” emoji not only can be used as a contract agreement, but is just as valid as an actual signature. The Saskatchewan-based judge made the ruling on the grounds that the courts must adapt to the “new reality” of how people communicate, as originally reported by The Guardian.

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[–] leapingleopard@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I wonder if they will take emoji cultural context into consideration? What about subcultures?

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[–] the_eric@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I think the original story mentioned that the farmer was already using the thumb’s up emoji previously to accept contacts.

[–] wjrii@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Not quite the emojis, but one or two-word texts. Judge just decided that it was at least 51% likely that the emoji in this particular case amounted to the same thing.

[–] nepenthes@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Sorry, it said that he was using text messaging to accept contracts, not emoji.