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Re:Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names lik... by jfoster on Sunday January 12, 2020 @04:22AM (#22025328)
What's the upside of deploying this anyway? It's not as though it's similar to Facebook where these names are very publicly visible. It's just the drivers who would see the names.

They could just generate the list of questionable names and get support to give them a call about it or institute a rider identity verification programme.

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Re:Lyft’s algorithm is trying to block people with names lik... by dannyw on Sunday January 12, 2020 @06:27AM (#22025765)
Wouldn’t be surprised if this was a 20% project by an employee group of some sorts.

The intentions can be noble, such as a Lyft employee seeing an user named “F* N*” and thinking, hey that shouldn’t be okay.

The actual consequences can be meh.

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