Re:HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
by guelo on Saturday August 18, 2018 @11:43PM
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Society doesn't have to accommodate Facebook's need to scale their businesses. If Facebook is unable to comply with a jurisdiction's laws then it shouldn't do business in that jurisdiction.
Re:HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
by wyattpeak on Saturday August 18, 2018 @11:35PM
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Why would we do that? We haven't been able to stop merchants swindling customers since the invention of trade, but we don't throw up our hands and shut down all markets. We just do the best we can to keep things as upright as possible.
Re:HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
by r00fus on Sunday August 19, 2018 @12:19AM
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If Facebook makes money on it they have the funds to stop it.
No slippery slope. This shit is illegal and has been for decades . Just because it happens on the internet doesn't make it any less illegal.
Re:HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
by bobthepanda on Sunday August 19, 2018 @01:34AM
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It's not even the censorship of user generated content.
Facebook allows you to exclude housing ads from being shown to protected classes of people. Facebook effectively says "Do you want to hide this ad from disabled people?" All they have to do to comply with anti-discrimination laws is to not offer this kind of exclusion.
Re:HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
by chickenfries on Sunday August 19, 2018 @12:22AM
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We're not talking about someone singing up for a free account with a burner email and posting on a Facebook group. We're talking about Facebook's ad targeting product from which they make a substantial profit...
Maybe we should acknowledge it is impossible to make a global, legal, Facebook-like website.