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Re:US bans differential privacy in Census data by Alive-in-2025 on Saturday June 13, 2026 @04:28PM (#48521116)
If you don’t count people of different races, nationalities, origin, then you can pretend there are only white people. You don’t know if there are any marginalized people gathered in say an extremely poor neighborhood, because they are all people.

I see it as a way to pretend there’s just white people.

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Re:US bans differential privacy in Census data by nullc on Saturday June 13, 2026 @09:05PM (#48523166)
Do you think the only, or even primary, thing that determines if a person is marginalized is the color of their skin? -- even taking that you're talking about a POOR neighborhood as a prior?
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Re:US bans differential privacy in Census data by DaSHacka on Sunday June 14, 2026 @03:21AM (#48524959)
Why would a conservative want to pretend that? When was the last time you actually talked to one?
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Re:US bans differential privacy in Census data by mvdtnz on Sunday June 14, 2026 @05:48PM (#48533164)
What an utterly ludicrous thing to say.
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