• FlumPHP@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Explain how sorting the list of available passengers by gender is discrimination? It’s being rolled out in huge metropolitan markets so there will be enough drivers for everyone to get one.

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      1 year ago

      @flumph if they allowed sorting the list by race, instead of by gender… would you understand how it’s discrimination, then?

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        1 year ago

        The protected category doesn’t matter, I don’t see how anyone is getting a leg up or being held back by the feature.

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          1 year ago

          @flumph so, if there was a button that allowed drivers to prioritize white passengers, but there wasn’t one to prioritize black passengers, that wouldn’t be discriminatory to you?

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      1 year ago

      The option allows customers to prioritize drivers from two of their 3 gender groups: “female” and “non-binary”. One group is left out and if you happen to be in that group, you’ll end up doing less trips, making less money.

      I wouldn’t be happy with a setting to prioritize “male”, so you can see why I’m not happy with a setting that prioritizes “female” and “non-binary”. You either give the customer the option to prioritize any gender or you don’t.

      Since they can’t verify one’s gender, the potential for abuse is there. A customer could prioritise these groups if they wanted to target them and the driver could also pick one of these genders if they wanted to have people of said gender in their car.

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        1 year ago

        The option allows customers to prioritize drivers…

        Nope, it doesn’t. The feature is for drivers, not passengers.