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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Kashuv

"Several of Kashuv's classmates complained on social media and to the press regarding Kashuv's use of inflammatory and racist comments, including racial slurs against African-Americans.[...] Screenshots of a Google Doc for a class study guide showed Kashuv writing the n-word multiple times, discussing "JEWISH SLAVES," and declaring that he would "fucking make a CSOG [sic] map of Douglas and practice" (in a supposed reference to the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive shooter game and Stoneman Douglas High School). Text messages also reportedly showed Kashuv rating a female student "7/10" and stating that she "goes for n***jocks"

I'm generally not super interested when it comes to the personalities of founders rather than products but yeah I think I'd pass on giving this guy my dating information.

I thought this was some old professor. This dude is 20. he was probably like 15 when the "oh so controversial" events happened. This is literally the equivalent of getting mad at someone for inflammatory things said on xbox live when they were kids.

Was anyone NOT dumb when they were in high school? Smart in the sense of math or physics maybe, but politician levels of picture perfect? Of course not.

Idk. No one I knew was an outspoken racist in school. Especially these days, teenagers seem to be very aware of these issues. Regardless, it’s not the only thing pointed out here. With the original comment it paints a different story than outcry for the sake of outcry.

Dang, for once I wish I read the comments before I followed the link (and submitted my almost-anonymized) details. I used a burner e-mail address though.

Ironically, if I had to guess based on the name of this app, I'd have guessed it was a kink-themed dating app.

Unsatisfied niche btw.. There is effectively no dating app for kinksters, but a lot of people are into kink.

That was very definitely my thought as well.

2022 is wild.

Yikes. Also sort of ironic given their app's name.

There’s a far cry between commenting on public information relative to a governmental official, and misusing information as a private company.

But if commenting on public information outs you as a kink shaming not at all nice person, why should anyone trust you with sensitive, including potentially kinky, information? What if a cuffed user shares their kinks on the platform, and then goes and runs for office somewhere?

What privacy laws?

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