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13 Dec 2008, 8:00 am

i wonder what would happen if there was a White, Oriental ect browser too...

and AS browser would be a cool concept and might in many ways work to make surfing easier for AS affected, but there would need to be some flexibility as none are the same...

but for now i just mod my mozilla:) its probably easier...and i get what i want...

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13 Dec 2008, 11:40 am

ToadOfSteel wrote:

when i look at pictures especially with words i always see two different meanings. for instance here i see the color red, does this mean im color blind? what is wrong with me.

everything is for sale in america so i'll just ignore it

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13 Dec 2008, 12:09 pm

Aspie_Chav wrote:

Black neurotypical white neurotypical. Strange why do neurotypical have to make so many divisions. NTs are more or less the same. If you want difference try having Asperger syndrome.

Exactly.

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13 Dec 2008, 3:03 pm

Aspie_Chav wrote:

Black neurotypical white neurotypical. Strange why do neurotypical have to make so many divisions. NTs are more or less the same. If you want difference try having Asperger syndrome.

Perfectly stated sir!

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13 Dec 2008, 6:59 pm

Having an internet browser for different races makes absolutely no sense at all. This is how Fox News described it:

Fox News wrote:

Billed as "the Web browser for the African-American community," it's a modification of Mozilla Firefox with a different color scheme — black and earthy shades of green and brown.

Apparently black folk need to see those irresistible "shades of green and brown" to tempt them online. I think giving a spurious racial basis to an internet browser is one of the most ludicrous things I have ever heard.

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15 Dec 2008, 12:14 am

They put on a new 'skin!?' and that's an African-American browser? that's too silly for words...

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15 Dec 2008, 4:38 am

ouinon wrote:

Unless it is simply an advertising angle it suggests that significant numbers of black people find that the "normal" browsers do not sufficiently represent black people's presence, issues, or interests.

It is why there are magazines and TV channels for gay people, lesbians, etc; because they do not see themselves represented very often, or very accurately, in the mainstream media.

It suggests that there may be a conscious or unconscious racist bias to the main browsers, that most whites aren't aware of. It certainly hadn't occurred to me before, but now I think about it I realise that there might be.

I don't know much about how browsers work but if frequency of search affects the visibility/prioritisation of pages then if more white people have internet access than black people it could create a racial bias in their services. :?:

So why is there not a "Gaygle" browser?

Actually.. thats a good idea. I'm copyrighting that.

Meh, this is just more positive discrimination BS. Where's the White-specific browser? Divisions made over colour are racist, simple as that.

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17 Dec 2008, 3:26 am

A reasonable conspiracy theory about racial software is that it will enable discrimination.

For example, businesses will recognize the identity preference of the person by their browser and there will no longer just be generic customers. There will be targeted advertising, targeted favoritism, and definitely more segregation-like effects such that people will very likely have different experiences while searching for the same thing, and if they can get away with it, businesses will vary prices or not offer same products and content to the un-targeted demographic, even such that it will not be available, and the two classes of software might as well be trademarked STIGMA and PRIVILEGE.

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17 Dec 2008, 3:47 am

This is funny for so many reasons.

But anyways, when does my WASP browser come out?

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