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Re:Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names lik... by klipt on Saturday January 11, 2020 @04:53PM (#22022601)
Ironically a lot of "puritan" values are now considered "social justice" values.

See eg "shirtgate" where an astronomer was castigated by feminists for wearing a shirt with skimpily clad figures, on the basis that it was offensive to women. Ironically, the shirt had been given to him by a feminist woman friend who thought it was liberating.

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Re:Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names lik... by wutbrodo on Sunday January 12, 2020 @04:36AM (#22025384)
There's always some subset of the population whose conception of "morality" consists of blindly bellowing the dogma of the day. It's not weird that the behavior looks identical even though the dogma itself is nominally different.
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Re:Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names lik... by qwerty456127 on Saturday January 11, 2020 @05:08PM (#22022695)
Bullshit culture as it is.
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Re:Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names lik... by lallysingh on Sunday January 12, 2020 @03:57AM (#22025253)
Meh, someone's always complaining. Also about the moon "landing" and the Earth's supposed roundness.
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