> from a legal point of view, a smiley is a "full and decent response" as much > as a scribbled x is a valid signature on a contract. Criminal gangs are > jailed for trading and killing emojis and contracting parties are held to > their emoji side of the bargain, with the added cost of ambiguity and > confusion. Is a thumb down emoji an order to kill or a refusal to enter a > contract? Tower of Babel 2.0
I'm not sure whether this was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, but speaking from a legal perspective, at very least, outside of the criminal law arena (i.e. so in civil law) a response of any kind, including just a single emoji, carries a great more weight than a lack of any response. As to the way to interpret the emoji (thumb up? thumb down? smiley face?) that would depend almost entirely on the thread of the correspondence, and the legal documents involved which are the subject of the correspondence. Anne -- Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. Email Law & Policy Attorney Legislative Advisor Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal email marketing law) CEO Institute for Social Internet Public Policy _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
