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See, this is where the creators of the CoC made a mistake, either of malice or ignorance.

>(Do Not)Use ml5.js to build tools that discriminate against marginalized communities

That could be better put as

>(Do Not)Use ml5.js to build tools that discriminate

By adding in "marginalized communities", they are creating loopholes. Some discrimination is good, as long as it is to people we don't like. Is discrimination against Chinese allowed? In the big picture, Chinese are the majority of the world population.

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They don't mean the words literally. As you point out, there's no consistent and clear definition. What the ml5.js license actually means is that the creators will harass --- at first socially, then maybe legally --- members of their political outgroup who use their software. It's not conduct they're prohibiting, but aid and comfort to the enemy tribe.

That’s working as intended. They don’t want to prevent discrimination, they want to stop discrimination against groups they like.

It's such a silly Americanized view. With they would leave that crap out of everything they touch and just write software.

> Chinese are the majority of the world population.

No, they are roughly 1/5th of it.

True they are not majority by being over 1/2 population but they are majority in the sense of greater quantity or share.

Population by Country China 18.47% India 17.70% USA 4.25%

I could take your argument and use it to say that Christians are not the majority even though they are 31.11% if looking at the religious population size.

By mostly my point was to highlight that you can spin and manipulate the CoC however you want, thus leaving the CoC Steering Committee either over worked trying to enforce the CoC of using selective enforcement where they only go after "bad" people.

Also: >(Do Not)Use ml5.js to build tools to disingenuously manipulate public opinion

Would ingenuous manipulation be acceptable? https://www.wordnik.com/words/ingenuous adjective Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So is fairness and justice I fear.

The word you want is "plurality" not "majority"

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