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Re:HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook by fma on Saturday August 18, 2018 @08:48PM (#17791819)
I'll take a stab. You have a rental house where you want to rent out to senior citizens (for whatever reason). You put your ad in the local AARP magazine. If a young couple stumble upon the ad in the magazine, they can read the ad and apply for your rental.

However, what FB is doing is...that young couple reads the magazine and can't see the ad, but a senior citizen can.

IANAL...and for what it's worth there's a similar lawsuit for age discrimination for job hiring. Post ads only for certain age target.

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Re:HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook by dennisgorelik on Saturday August 18, 2018 @08:56PM (#17791848)
> young couple ... can't see the ad, but a senior citizen can

Yes. Which is a good thing, because it saves time both to renters and landlords.

It also does not offend anyone, because there is no public age discrimination wording in the ad.

The most important part for our discussion here: there is no public promotion of age superiority in these ads. Therefore this Fair_Housing_Act does NOT apply.

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Re:HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook by Dylan16807 on Saturday August 18, 2018 @10:16PM (#17792151)
> Which is a good thing, because it saves time both to renters and landlords.

When it comes to protected classes, it's not 'saving time' because a landlord acting legally is equally likely to rent to either group.

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