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Re:Facebook Accused by HUD of Housing Bias Over Use of Targe... by whatok on Thursday March 28, 2019 @11:49AM (#19513362)
I can totally see how this wasn't anything malicious and just done out of pure ignorance of the law. That said, I would expect this out of a small startup; not a massive corporation. This is actually where I can see the argument for increases in diversity as I can see how a homogeneous group of people being completely ignorant of the ramifications of this.
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Re:Facebook Accused by HUD of Housing Bias Over Use of Targe... by SolaceQuantum on Thursday March 28, 2019 @12:02PM (#19513517)
A large corporation should be able to afford lawyers that specialize in the legality of advertisements...
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Re:Facebook Accused by HUD of Housing Bias Over Use of Targe... by amanaplanacanal on Thursday March 28, 2019 @12:24PM (#19513699)
This is the weird thing. They don't have a legal team? Or are they just not listening to their lawyers? That's a bad idea for anybody.
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Re:Facebook Accused by HUD of Housing Bias Over Use of Targe... by michaelchisari on Thursday March 28, 2019 @12:01PM (#19513503)
> I can totally see how this wasn't anything malicious and just done out of pure ignorance of the law.

I agree that's possible, but that seems to be Facebook's goto excuse, and you're right, that's not something a megacorp should be allowed to reach to.

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