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> Facebook dating team’s decision to avoid including a filter that would let users target or exclude potential love interests of a particular race

Lots of minorities actually love this feature because they can find people from their own community. If it were up to teams like this, they would remove the gender filter as well. I’m glad these crazy Twitter people were fired.

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...Or maybe facebook dating is a little trite and shouldn't even be a thing?

You get decisions like this after profiling use cases - targeting by race might be vector for targeting minorities for hate crimes.

Community/social sites (in my opinion) should not double as dating sites - for safety reasons.

The reason we can't have nice things is because of bad actors: all design needs to account for bad actors.

Assholes ruin design: Don't shoot the messenger - or stop taking their calls when your own team tell you they exist.

What they should've done is add a second filter to avoid getting matched up with people who use the race filter.

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