[dragonwriter]

> Could 'digital native' be used for discrimination? Sure.

> Is it inherently or obviously used that way? No, not likely.

It inherently, from its coinage, refers to a particular subset of persons born in the media saturated age (it appears later to have evolved to more firmly post-1980, but the general features around its coinage would have nailed it near that time if not specifically at that point), which means that, if nothing else, it is inherently age-discriminatory.