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		Tinder Lets Known Sex Offenders Use the App. It’s Not the Only One (buzzfeednews.com)
		3 points by lewisflude on Dec 2, 2019 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

pmdulaney on Dec 2, 2019 [–]

I'm not a lawyer but it seems to me that any presumption that they were filtering out the creeps would make them subject to legal action if they let one through who ended up attacking someone. Thorny problem.

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