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Re:HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook by bonzini on Sunday August 19, 2018 @08:47AM (#17794081)
I don't see it as fair. I am not American so I am not familiar with the law. The other comment that replied to me explained why it's also illegal, without accusing anyone of racism.

I still don't believe that merely providing the option to create potentially discriminatory ads is a problem for Facebook, since the same options have perfectly valid usage. It should be the landlord's responsibility to use them correctly.

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Re:HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook by pests on Sunday August 19, 2018 @10:12AM (#17794391)
Why not disable them when it's invalid usage then?

Who did I accuse of racism? I stated people in the thread are being casually racist but didn't name any names.

Haven't we been learning as developers or operators that it's better to put processes and systems in place to prevent human error opposed to relying on human judgement alone? Why the slack with this issue?

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Re:HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook by bonzini on Monday August 20, 2018 @01:47AM (#17797959)
How would you detect invalid usage? For example, targeting different text or pictures at different segments should be okay even for housing ads, as long as you don't exclude any segment.

Would you also require natural language processing to detect illegal text?

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