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Genetic Access Control Code Uses 23andMe DNA Data For Internet Racism
rjmarvin writes: A GitHub project is using the 23andMe API for genetic decoding to act as a way to bar users from entering websites based on their genetic data — race and ancestry. "Stumbling around GitHub, I came across this bit of code: Genetic Access Control. Now, budding young racist coders can check out your 23andMe page before they allow you into their website! Seriously, this code uses the 23andMe API to pull genetic info, then runs access control on the user based on the results. Just why you decide not to let someone into your site is up to you, but it can be based on any aspect of the 23andMe API. This is literally the code to automate racism."
1: Stop caring what other people do.
2: Don't have a 23andMe profile (accessible to random websites on the internet, or at all) if you really care and think this will actually affect you.
Perhaps some users will implement it in a harmless and beneficial way, such as creating a safe space for women. But it’s just as likely that, in a few years, Googling for a snippet of this code yields search results that are the equivalent of a who’s who of racist and misogynist sites.
3: Take your sexist, racist agenda and go the fuck away.
Now you won't just have to buy other people's pee to pass your drug test, you'll have to buy other people's spit to get access to racist websites.
This is a good example of how "because we can" is no longer affordable. It certainly is not the only example, there are many more. This just punches a particular hotbutton. Also note that if this gets retracted someone who wants it --for whatever purpose-- can re-create it with little trouble, so there's no use condemning the author -- even if they are terribly naïve, completely forgetting that you can be both inclusive and exclusive with the same tool.
What you should be doing instead of fuming over the details is that the time has come to think long and hard as to what we want technology to do and also what we want it to not do. We need much clearer ideas there, and we need to actively think about them. We can no longer wait, try out everything, hope the good stuff sticks and the bad stuff withers away. We know it doesn't work like that.
Those little spammers and their marketing BS are not welcome.
Finally a way to avoid offending certain people and gorillas.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
So visitors to his website:
* Must have been sequenced by 23andMe
* And be so interested in his website that they are willing to give him access to their genetic data
* And meet whatever genetic filter he has imposed.
At this point, what he is running is less of a 'website', more of a 'diary', as it will have only one reader.
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It is easy to see how such code would be used to discriminate based on issues such as race or ancestry. With that in mind imagine how many skinheads, neo-nazis, klanners, and other groups will use this to restrict access to their website and their members will have to get these reports in order to have access and then discover that their DNA isn't as pure as they first thought.
I didn't realize that "race" could now be determined by a genetic sequence (or two). If true this may lead to some very troubling possibilities.
It would be possible using CRISPR (a recently developed means of precisely targeting an exact genetic sequence) to have a virus that could infect just one particular population. Smallpox comes to mind because 1) very few people in the world are currently vaccinated against it (it was made extinct a while ago) and 2) its DNA has been sequenced and published online. So, using a DNA synthesis machine you could make a version of this virus that would target a particular population.
I believe such machines can now make DNA sequences long enough to create viruses. I also remember someone creating a much more lethal version of smallpox that could kill all of the laboratory animals it infected, including ones vaccinated against "normal" smallpox (I think it was 100% lethal).
Of course, making a virus that would go after a particular Sex as opposed to a racial characteristic should be much easier (just target any gene found on one of the sex chromosomes and not the other.) This particular scenario was explored in Frank Herbert's book "The White Plague". A related scenario might be the film "Children of Men" where all the women(?) are made sterile.
Why did so many jump to the racism label? Suppose there was a family or tribal asset that is exclusive and members are readily identified by genetics? Aborigines have artifacts maintained at museums that are only accessible by their specific tribe. Native American tribes bestow benefits to their tribal members (which need to be verified). Why is this assumed to be used to do evil unto others?
Think about how that might not work out well for you, Barack. You'll be better off if you just keep saying "there is no precedent for that" when people suggest a good idea that you don't want to implement, and ignoring precedent the rest of the time. Let the crackers see your whitehouse.gov website, it isn't like you really listen to any of the petitions on it anyway.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
There are other valid uses other than racism I just want to use it to keep the people with a Y chromosome deficiency away from my jobs recruiting website. I do that now by putting plenty of links to Ophra.com on the website and that works pretty well for diverting away most of the unwanted traffic, but every once in a while an unwanted applicant sneaks through.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Now only people with a 30% chance of being able to smell asparagus in urine will be able to visit my site!
Surely you mean "orange haired orangutans".
You can snarkily suppose all you want, but that doesn't mean you are making sense, or that you're helping find a solution. We could have nice things but there is a price: At a high level we must take responsibility for our technology use and make choices as to what we want. If you're unwilling to choose someone else will choose for you, even as an "emergent property", and those choices will primarily serve their interests, not yours.
The point is that we have to make choices, we can no longer afford not to. The technology is no longer meaningfully restricted by its limitations. So the current situation to just do whatever because whatever, ie "because we can", really isn't tenable: We'd end up with an unaffordable situation, possibly one we can no longer get out of.
Thus it follows that we, and I mean collectively, not just entire countries but we-as-in-humanity-we need to figure out what choices we want to make. That's all of us, or at least those of us who are prepared to think hard and say intelligent things about it.
Are you prepared to at least think about this sort of thing, or do you want to be unconstructively snarky some more?
This has got to be against the Terms of Service, right?
What if someone wanted a forum for say, Huntington's disease (just to pick a random genetic problem). What if they wanted a section where only people who truly have Huntington's can share their experiences without getting trolled by just any person? (duh, people with Huntington's could troll too, but you get what I mean). Just to say, not everything having to do with someone's genetic code is "racist". Almost makes me think the OP is just trolling too.
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how secure could that actually be as an access control?
I mean, the access control isn't checking your DNA. It is checking if you have access to a genetic profile of someone with matching criteria. Or, as a completly different attack vector: access to body fluids of someone matching the allowed filters. ("whitelisting" gets a whole new meaning here....)
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I thought the narrative was that race doesn't exist? That we're all the same race? How then is is possible that one can determine so called race by examining the genetic profile of a person?
Is it possible we were lied to and that race is indeed something that can be determined as a composition of genes and other genetic data?
The correlation between genes and culture is becoming weaker in the modern world. People have far more interaction than before with people from other backgrounds since travel is easier, many people live in large cities and people communicate online. Therefore, to guard access to an online community based on genetics seems like the wrong solution, since a superficial genetic profile will not predict how well an individual will fit into a community.
Looks too complicated. Folowing is simpler:
1. Take users name.
2. Download his picture from facebook.
3. Use face recognition api to sum pixels in face to check if its white enough.
I agree, because only White people can be racist. Racism is privilege plus power. We need to stop racists from being able to do damage by programming software. They should be restricted from accessing Github and learning how to write software. We should round up all White programmers and scrutinize their political beliefs so that we can eliminate the poison that is racism from our society. It's the only way the future will be free from racism.
But only white people can be racist. Racism = privilege + power. Only white people have privilege, whereas the People of Color lack privilege and social power. Therefore it's impossible for a Person of Color man to be racist. We must unite against all racists and purge them from our society. It's the only way the future will survive.
You sound like a racist. You should be ashamed, and then you should have your identity tracked down so you can be made an example of as the people of tolerance and peace have you removed from your job and your finances ruined. No racists on our streets!
No? Ok, I'll see myself out.
> A GitHub project is using the 23andMe API for genetic decoding to act as a way to bar users from entering websites based on their genetic data — race and ancestry.
This is very useful. Why should e.g. a syrian webforum allow access to jews, so that they can spew hasbara propaganda and recruit traitors to work for the Mossad in support of the saudi proxy's ISIS invasion?
Why should e.g. a european webforum allow access to russians, so that they can spew militant panslavic putinist propaganda, deny responsibility for MH17's downing and the Katin massacre, while recruiting traitors to work for the FSB/GRU in support of the the upcoming muscovite invasion of the Baltics?
Why should any web forum located outside of Africa grant access to nigerians, so that they can spew type 419 advance fee fraud, while calling whites stupid (even though the average adult negro has an IQ of just 70, which is considered slightly mentally retarded for whites, who have an average IQ of 95-100.)
It is a matter of fact that human races are not equal. Those nations/people/tribes that have no neanderthal cross-breeding heritage, because they never migrated out of Africa or left the black continent too late, haven't received large-brain encoding genes from the Neanderthals and this means low IQ for them. The only people equal to the white caucasian race are the japanese.
(Although one must mention that south koreans and iranians-persians have the potential to grow equals. Especially the ancient culture and philosophical heritage of the persians is underestimated by the western world, which is blinded by jewish propaganda. The Iran embargo doesn't work, exactly because they are a coherent, utmost patriotic, resourceful and clever nation and they do work, unlike arabs. Yet the world knows so little about them, because of the embargo.)
Like this white supremacist who found out that he's 14% African.
I can't think of any practical use for such a Genetic Access Control method nor of a reason to feel outrage and clamor "racism". For a start, this app only works for users who are also 23andme clients anyway, who also agree to have the app access their data (à la Twitter), and I'd say those people pretty much already explicitly waived their genetic privacy.
Also, I can attest to how widely inaccurate some of the results you get through the API can be, especially the ethnic origin results. In my case it's ~16% inaccurate. It's known to overstate european origins and downplay or entirely lack quite a few less common origins, as the comparison database misses data from entire ethnical groups (Sinté, Romani...) or has only a handful (or single) individual DNAs for many potential origins (Romania, Azerbaijan, etc.). And the haplogroups tree that the API reports from is outdated (and, again as in my case, very lacking of resolution in several branches).
Maybe we deserve this world ?
Do they have a choice to have a DNA profile accessible?
In the UK, when police arrest you they take a DNA sample which goes onto a database. Then they can release you (no crime committed) but the DNA sample is still kept. They can arrest you for anything BTW, all offenses are arrestable, and many offsense are a joke, a simple opinion of an officer as to what constitutes bad behaviour. Tony Blairs lot wanted to add EVERYONE to the database and Jacqui Smith even tried. Now the other lot are in, but Home Secretary Theresa May is of the same type (anti male bitch thinks every person is a criminal till they prove themselves to be loyal), so this may come yet to pass.
Another of Blairs innovations? Your home details can be obtained by anyone with your driving license plate number. Insurance companies have a lot of your details on their computers, direct from the government.
So how long before your DNA is available to those same companies?
Tony Blair is long gone, thank god, Jacqui Smith has gone too, but the opposition one, Theresa May, is the exact same mould. Thinks everyone is guilty until they prove their loyalty to her views. Is currently trying to justify mass surveillance with false "people will die" claims, after the court ruled it illegal.
Whoever gets that job (Home Office), is a pro-surveillance person, because the spooks and police have a file on every candidate and ensure a compliant home secretary, because they already did the mass surveillance illegally anyway.
IF haveOnlineGeneticProvile
THEN PRINT "You are too dumb to be allowed on the internet."
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
In other words, the article author thinks that white people have something 'special' which they are depriving non-whites of, by not allowing them to associate with us.
Otherwise, what exactly is the author saying? I thought all the races were the same, so why would it bother anybody if they weren't allowed to associate with a certain number of people of another race?
Disagree. Any speech or expression should be allowed, or your remarks
themselves could be considered hate-speech. The Constitution's framers
understood this fine point that speech that is not acted upon is nothing more
than speech. Now if a person acts on their words, then yes, that's a problem
Does DNA encode genes for race? I don't believe it does. Genes can reflect geography but that isn't close to the same as race.
I thought the narrative was that race doesn't exist? That we're all the same race?
Yup. We're all the same specie. "Race" is just an arbitrary label used to make convenient distinction among a group of individual that would other wise mate together : e.g.: breeds of dogs, etc.
How then is is possible that one can determine so called race by examining the genetic profile of a person?
Is it possible we were lied to and that race is indeed something that can be determined as a composition of genes and other genetic data?
Short answer: Nope, it's not possible.
Not so short answer: Well depend on what you define as "races" i.e.: you'll need to constantly redefine your arbitrary "race" label along as the set of gene that you try to use to map it. With that definition of "race" drifting farther and farther away from what biggots with an agenda would like it to be.
Long answer: Remember that the only valid real barrier is *specie*. i.e.: between groups that *cannot* mate together. Inside that division, all individual can mate together. Humans are specially good at that "mating" (well, maybe except some basement dweller): because from our dawn we've been one of the most mobile specie, only bested by birds and some big aquatic animals. Humans do tend to get around a lot. As a result our specie is constantly under heavy genetic mixing.
You can put some arbitrary labels (hey, let's put together individual that have darker skin tone in one big arbitrary bunch and call them niggers!)
You can even find some labels that are actually convenient (statistically, people who typically come from Caucasian ancestry tend to have a bit higher probability for some disease and a bit lower for others).
But if you got into the details, it starts to get muddy, you'll find that some people that you put in one of your arbitrary categories come from completely different lineage that split quite some time before, whereas other that you wanted to put out of that label actually share much more recent ancestry.
(That white supremacist biggot over there ? He want to be put in a special category, aside "non whites" ? well on the surface it might look like some vague idea like correlating it with skin pigmentation. Except that among those non-white he'll probably put native american, but also african and north african. And his grand-dad happens to be from an italian immigrant family, and over the course of history southern european have had a lot of exchange with northern africa. See where I'm heading ?)
So, in short what works well to separate breeds of dogs (which are bred in very controlled manners and you can somewhat keep something like a breed more or less pure) absolutely doesn't work with human that fuck around a lot.
Same for the genetics.
You'll be able to spot a few marker (let's say: a gene that helps control the base amount of melanin in the skin). But once you start using this, you'll notice that a lot of the "wrong people" end in the "wrong category".
That specific list of markers you've assembled together, will consider some of the white supremacists as non white (because of the complex mixed ancestry most people have) while failing to cast aside one of their usual target.
An idealist (like me) would dream that this would help some of the biggots to realise that we aren't that much different under the skin, we're so much mixed that there's a high probability that the biggot has a bit in their blood what their usual target is.
Saddly, the reality will be that they'll be still endlessly tweaking around their genetic definition of "race", to constantly keep itt more or less matching their agenda. They'll never have a definite set of markers, they'll constantly need to patch them. And over time it will evolve to something that at the genetic level doesn't remotely look like what they pretend to be (by the time they manage to include all their friend and exclude all their targets, melanin-related gene
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The only people bothered by this are the silly gits who have championed real names on the internet, the people who ignorantly believe they are only allowed to have one identity on the internet, and those foolish individuals who broadcast lives to the world.
Online IDs are cheap. They don't cost anything and you don't need to find a shady character in a seedy print shop to score one.
I don't understand what the poster is talking about. According to 23andMe information about access from their public APIs, "Each app will request that you log in to your 23andMe account and provide access. Each app will specify the data it is requesting and what use it will make of that data. If you don’t want to give a particular app access to your 23andMe data, simply deny access to that app." So, a website cannot just go and check any genetic data. Sounds like nonsense to me.
Who cares how this is used? You can use an image hosting site to take a picture of yourself with your username much more easily and be vetted by administrators if they're so racist or sexist that they care about being "pure". I can't possibly imagine that a racist or sexist forum would be so swamped with new users that it would be worth it to automate the process at the cost of turning anyone away.
That is a good thing and, no it isn't racist (at least not inherently). It *could* be used for racist policies, but what about websites with content targeting specific genetic conditions? Or a website about medical conditions shown to effect racial breakdowns differently. If I'm white and my health insurance company tailors content for diseases that impact white people more, I'd say it's a good thing if the site can automatically tell me about tests I should get.
Or maybe if I'm black, a cosmetics company can tailor content for makeup meant for black skin.
Even if someone uses it for "racism", why the crap do you care? If some website wants to exclude you because you are different, why would you want to hang out on that site anyway?
I find your comment offensive and a micro-agression against me and my kind. This is hate speech. Please ban and delete immediately.
We get it - you are scared and lashing out like a petulant child at anyone or anything which threatens to shed just a little more light on your insecurities.
Apparently someone forgot that it was a movie, not an instruction manual.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Apparently you don't understand the concept of 'fighting words'...
his key point of 'acted upon' stands, and you're a moron. Go back to toking, pot head.
NBA, Comcast, Toyota, Obama, etc. care though. :P
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Depends on the speech, the person, and in what role their speech originates from.
For ex:
-money in politics: not free speech
-private citizen being racist: free speech
-government official being racist in his official capacity: not free speech
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
Gonna cut down on fb fakes, eh?
23andMe even offers an API that allows you to share your genetic information with the REST of the world.
it must be a RESTful API
Okay, people can register DNA samples with 123andme.com and be entered into their genetic database. When you log into a site that uses this API, racist or otherwise, what quick way is there to authenticate? Touch the tip of your tongue to a sensor? This could be a surefire way to identify an individual, so long as the sensor had a threshold test that would prevent people from using the edge of someone's water glass to log in.
pretty obvious you have no damn idea what you are talking about
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
congratulations your amongst the unwashed that have no idea what the constitution says.
So? It is not physically checking anything. There is no actual physical check against your genetic code.
Sincerely,
A dog.
a way to make sure users of a forum for pre-teen girls are at least female - not men looking to rape children.
The hell did I just read?
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It can automate "affirmative action" (reverse discrimination). So all of a sudden that code is good not bad now, right?
Are you telling me that all the SJWs who've been telling me for all these years that there is no genetic difference between races have been lying?
A lot of publicity will immediately point straight towards some Caucasian guy because, (statistically speaking (ignoring interjection: "wahhhh, we can haz inventive too") it's usually a caucasian guy that is creative enough to develop this (albeit sinister) technology..
But, the reality is this would do really well in China, Japan and Korea (racism isn't taboo there) It's just an unapologetic way of life. In South Korea, it's so racist I could easily see the government itself using this application. Racism just doesn't figure there, it's not even politically incorrect. It's how it is.
I remember a story not so long ago of a night club in New York that was Asians only .. in New York.. they'll have a field day with this technology.
Sad times...
Here come the barrage of whiners and race-card playing immigrants.The West is the most open of all regions and still we have to continue to drop our pants further and further. Liberal hipsters are probably already having orgasms about how they will use this story to victimise "minorities".
And all the while, the facts remain the facts. The Chinese get to have the last laugh as usual, because this doesn't evenget to be a story over there.
Period.
Sure, this could be used for racist purposes.
But, could it not also be used as a form of multi-factor authentication?
Isn't this just the next step? Prepare for Cyber-Darwinian evolution.
no such thing as "fighting words" on the internet. fighting words is speech that can lead to violence or harm in the near future. no violence ever came of arguing on the internet.
also, just because something is fighting words doesn't mean its not allowed. it means that this category of speech can be regulated by the government because the government has a legitimite interest in keeping the peace. govt can regulate fighting words in ways that are directly tied to the government's interest and are the least obtrusive way to achieve that goal.
The Ancients.. is US
No, it's not. Whether you are offended or not is irrelevant. What makes something hate speech is that it attacks a group, making them more of an acceptable target for future attacks. Hate speech is, in other words, the propaganda campaign that precedes every war and atrocity in human history. That makes hate speech not just speech but also an action, the first blow that starts chipping off the preceived humanity of the target that protects them from violence.
Is someone simply being a jerk? Then it's just speech, offensive or not. Is someone working themselves up into a rage in preparation for an attack? Then it's hate speech.
Forget magic. Any technology distinguishable from divine power is insufficiently advanced.
Note that the First Amendment only limited Congress, not the States or other smaller governments, or the courts. One question is that since it amended the Constitution, is Congress still allowed to limit speech with copyright (and other IP) laws?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
No, it's not.
Yes, it is, and everything you wrote following that just proves me right. You are attacking the group of people who fully believe in the concept of free speech.
Now I want to be clear that I do not want you to shut up. But, by your own logic, you believe that your own speech should be censored. And any further insistence that your speech is "ok" will, again by your own logic (not mine, yours), reveal yourself to just be a gigantic hypocrite.
I understand what "hate speech" is. I am merely pointing out that speech about forbidding hate speech is, itself, hate speech against those of us who fully believe in the concept of free speech. There is no way around it. Either you think hate speech should be banned and thus think your own speech should be banned, or you are accepting of all speech. There is no option where you think hate speech should be banned, but your own speech protected. Because your speech is hate speech.
Or it could be used to create social dating networks with genetic variation in mind.
So you won't make babies with your long lost cousin or something.
Why does everything have to revolve around racism?
These days, 'racism' is about culture, not "race" in the sense of skin pigmentation or skull shape. We know anyway, that "race", technically speaking, is meaningless in humans.
It could be said that appearance (okay, 'race') is a really crappy proxy for culture, and people choose to discriminate and abuse others on the basis of culture.
By way of example, hardworking, moral, aspirational Hindus and Sikhs are well-liked where I live. Yet, their genetically identical south-Asian radical Muslim kin are despised and shunned, and are dirt-poor as a result. Discriminating against somebody on the basis of a dubious socially-conditioned trait like adherence to conservative Islam (say) would be impossible to do through genetic data alone.
As it were, the worst-behaved and most aggressive people I come across at street-level would be people who wear sleeveless puff jackets, have beards, shave the sides of their heads, drive BMWs, don't bathe, and show no respect to whites or women. Dress and behaviour -- not genetics.
If the site is strict enough it will just be mental incest on that site.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Awww, you poor wittle cracker. What's wrong? Don't you like the taste of your own medicine whitey? Whitey has had all the privileges from enslaving others, most notably from the African people. Your white privilege allowed you to stifle real freedom of speech for so long with African-Americans. The constitution does not allow hate speech but since3 you fucktarded crackers do how about this. Due to white privilege all whites are racist by default and the only good racist is a dead one. The only way to get rid of your status of a fucking racist is for whitey to give everything they own to the African American community and live in slave wage jobs permanently. Oh, you don't want to do that? Well then by your logic KILL WHITEY!!!
You don't know how many voices are in his head. Maybe it is a group you're attacking?!
Except that any law enacted by a state government needs to be constitutional. Weren't you paying attention to all the "marriage-equality" bullshit in the U.S. over the past 10 years?
Theoretically, the courts cannot legislate anything, so that's a red herring.
I think what you were trying to say was that the 1st Amendment only prohibits the government from restricting free speech and free association. Other non-governmental entities (e.g online forum moderators) can censor to their hearts' content.
While Dr. Yak is largely correct on the science, and the fact that a lot of people would be surprised to find certain genetic details about themselves, Dr Yak also completely wrong.
It is completely possible to use genetic details to classify people into groups. There are certainly overlapping people, like Native-American mixed with African, and Northern European. There are lots of people signing up to find out what their "origins" are. There are definite differences between African, Asian, Polynesian, Scandinavian, Jewish, Middle-Eastern, Southern Europeans, and so on. It does not rise to the level of races within the species. Even though: Europeans are largely Homo Sapien/Neanderthal cross-bred, Southern Asiatics are largely Homo Sapien/Denisovian cross-bred, and Africans are largely Homo Sapien/Other ancient hominid cross-bred. There is some mixing of these three, making probably a whole spectrum. Again, though the homogeneity of the human species is so complete we have only one race.
Having only one race doesn't mean there are no scientifically determinate variations. It just means, you can't always tell by looking at someone, what those variations are. I think that is really what Dr. Yak is meaning. These characteristics can be used to include or exclude certain people from some exclusive club. But those doing so, would do well to test themselves first, to make sure they fit in the category they think they do.
Umm.... everything YOU just wrote proves you to be yet another fucking AC idiot who doesn't have the balls to own up to his free speech.
Fighting Words have long been prohibited. Dressing up your fighting words in fig leaves does not change the underlying intent. Blowing dog whistles still brings the dogs. Implied calls to action ("XXX people are dogs and should be put down like dogs!!!") are still calls to action.
Help! You are oppressing me by not allowing me to attack you!
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The concern trolling is strong with this one...
Look at the bright side. This technology could also be used to produce an even racial balance among the participants at a website.
If a disproportionately large number of people of a racial group have logged in, it will not allow any more of that group until the population is more appropriately diverse.
Alakazam! A more diverse Internet.
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.