Re:Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings
by Scoundreller on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @08:16PM
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That requires Uber to know the class of its riders.
And the account holder won’t account for all riders (and could be different than the account holder entirely).
Re:Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings
by DenisM on Thursday May 30, 2019 @11:50AM
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Riders can self-select into a protected class, maybe?
This will of course lead to a situation where some hooligans opt into a protected class just to mess with the system. Even still, on large number of rides it will even out.
Re:Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings
by DuskStar on Thursday May 30, 2019 @02:13PM
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But everyone is a member of a protected class. Some people might not be members of historically disadvantaged protected classes, but the relevant laws don't discriminate in that way. ('Men' is a protected class. 'Women' is a protected class. And 'Other' is a protected class, too.)
Posting racially-discriminating for-rent ads gets both the landlord and the newspaper in trouble. "We're just a platform" doesn't work as an excuse.
It's also not hard to detect statistically - with enough data you can see that a given driver is giving worse ratings to protected class members compared to similar drivers at the same time and place.