CNN — Its name was an early clue that the venture was a badly executed idea.
A website named GhettoTracker.com launched earlier this week that invited locals to rate neighborhoods in their cities and identify which areas were unsafe, or as the homepage put it, “ghetto.” The crowdsourced information was supposed to help like-minded visitors, or people new to the area, know which neighborhoods to avoid.
Since then, it’s been a busy ride for the site’s founder, who has fielded an avalanche of angry criticism, rebranded the site, defended himself, shut the site down and then started it again.
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