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Yes and the safeguards are put in place by a very small group of people living in silicon valley.

I saw this issue working at Tinder too. One day they announced how they will be removing ethnicity filters at the height of the BLM movement across all the apps to weed out racists. Nevermind that many ethnical minorities prefer or even insist on dating within their own ethnicity and this was most likely hurting them and not racists.

That really pissed me off and opened my eyes to how much power these corporations have over dictating culture, not just toward their own cultural biasis but that of money.




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