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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by omginternets on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:19AM (#15977728)
> The woman who gave the presentation services her company's contract with a tech company, that, let's just say, has a big share of the search engine market.

If you're being oblique to avoid libel, it's worth noting that libel law doesn't care about whether nor not you name an entity. It cares about whether or not you've identified an entity.

Google has been identified.

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by bsder on Thursday December 21, 2017 @06:30AM (#15978018)
And if there were multiple people in that audience who concur about that quote, said entity is on the hook for a class action for millions of dollars.

Somehow, I don't think this one is going to get pursued ...

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by mankypro on Friday December 22, 2017 @11:43AM (#15988753)
There are multiple class-action suits going on in Silicon Valley for age discrimination as we speak - I know first hand the Oracle has more than one in place, and given that the O is full of gray hairs already, I can only imagine that the other big names are getting hit too...
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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by omginternets on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:04PM (#15983253)
Neither do I, which is why I find the whole exercise of not naming the company a bit odd.
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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by chrisper on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:25AM (#15977748)
For all we know it could be Bing!
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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by romanovcode on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:37AM (#15977788)
Yandex
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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by Bombthecat on Friday December 22, 2017 @01:24AM (#15985637)
The Chinese version of Google. Forgot there name though.

They are huge :)

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by romanovcode on Friday December 22, 2017 @05:20AM (#15986438)
Baidu
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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by omginternets on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:04PM (#15983245)
Generally, a handfull of possibilities counts as identification (at least, from a jurisprudence point of view)
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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by magnetic on Friday December 22, 2017 @11:50AM (#15988824)
Remember that it's only libel if it's not true.

It's possible that the report is true, but that the author doesn't want the consequences of unambiguous identification.

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