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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: sweetcell on January 13, 2012, 02:03:42 am

Title: Microsoft's 'Avoid Ghetto' App
Post by: sweetcell on January 13, 2012, 02:03:42 am

walkonby in DC: there's an app for that  ;D

So-Called 'Avoid Ghetto' App Drawing Criticism
http://www.fox8.com/news/wjw-microsoft-so-called-avoid-the-ghetto-app-mr-txt,0,7148487.story

Why Microsoft's 'Avoid Ghetto App' Takes Us the Wrong Way
http://www.thepolisblog.org/2012/01/why-microsofts-avoid-ghetto-app-takes.html

Title: Re: Microsoft's 'Avoid Ghetto' App
Post by: DeathFromAbove1979 on January 13, 2012, 11:46:13 am

It sends you a notification when you're nearing a neighborhood that has a high crime rate?

That's fucking racist. Only black people commit crimes.

Ugh. I hate the comments on that interview.

Title: Re: Microsoft's 'Avoid Ghetto' App
Post by: Herr Professor Doktor Doom on January 13, 2012, 07:31:07 pm

Racist, no, stupid, yes.