Thread: Is this racist? A app so you can avoid "certain" neighborhoods
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Old 08-08-2014, 09:29 AM  
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Is this racist? A app so you can avoid "certain" neighborhoods


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GhettoTracker.com is just as deplorable as its name suggests. The website, which surfaced yesterday on Hacker News and PandoDaily, invites users to rate neighborhoods based on "which parts of town are safe and which ones are ghetto, or unsafe." Unsafe to whom? Well, the gleaming white family on its "About" page, of course.

GhettoTracker's "ghettos" aren't identified based on mugging statistics or murder rates?or any hard data at all, really. Instead, "ghettos" are determined by the site's users and delineated by their prejudices. It's a new, crowd-sourced twist on stop-and-frisk: Just drop a little red dot anywhere you think upstanding folks should stop-and-avoid.

It might be the most cynical use of technology since some marketing asshat tried to turn homeless people into human Wi-Fi hotspots at South by Southwest.
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