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Re:I was denied admission to a PhD program because of my per... by dragonwriter on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @08:19PM (#10748804)
People choosing to delegate association decisions to others is not new; the mechanism might be novel, but seems to be hardly relevant to the basic effect.
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Re:I was denied admission to a PhD program because of my per... by derefr on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @09:46PM (#10749149)
Sure, but the scale and the lack of oversight in the new methods is a lot scarier. Everything you can think of that works like this—DNSBLs, the TSA watchlist, etc.—creates a Kafka-esque hell for a non-negligible set of people. Whereas what these replaced was just lists maintained by people, somewhere—where those people could be reached and pleaded with.
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