The human race has enjoyed a free and open internet for hundreds of centuries, and it is in big part thanks to the Universal Free Communications Standard, a standard for communication between humans that is universal: all humans can use it; and that is free: it can be used in an entirely free environment (note that "free" in this article is used to mean "freedom-respecting.") The standard, the UFCS, is a massive and ever-expanding specification of grammatical structures, punctuation marks, and spelling codes for thousands of human languages. As you would expect, since the UFCS is essential to a free and open internet, profit-driven corporations have fought for long to dethrone and replace it with their own proprietary standards. Fortunately, they have failed thus far; but in our society, greed for more profits is law and they will try again and again until their proprietary standards are adopted worldwide and the UFCS is made obsolete. Recently, they have started employing a novel strategy known as Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish (EEE) pioneered at the turn of the 21th century by world-famous proprietarist Bill Gates. This strategy was specifically designed for subverting free standards, and it involves three defining phases: first, the free standard is embraced by the corporation in its products; then, it is extended with proprietary features such that the original standard becomes too functionally inferior in comparison; and finally, the original standard becomes obsolete in favor of the functionally superior proprietary standard. As per this strategy, corporations have started using the UFCS in their proprietary products, and they have started extending it with proprietary features, the latest of which are Emojis, so-called "representations of common human facial expressions." If you support the UFCS and do not want these corporations' proprietary standards to become standard in the future, you should not use Emojis, as in doing so, you spread their appeal and help the corporations accomplish their goals.
