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Enough Already With the Avoid-The-Ghetto Apps
A bad idea that won't go away.
Update: As of 4:40 p.m., this site appears to be down all together.
Eighteen months ago, we wrote about a Microsoft app that would help people navigate around crime-ridden neighborhoods, an idea that was widely derided at the time as a not-so-subtle tool to help people with smart phones but no street smarts figure out how to "avoid the ghetto."