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Re:Why I Work on Ads by cm2012 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @01:06PM (#27066205)
FB does enforce the fair housing act and other laws. The platform is actually quite strict nowadays and catches lots of innocent ads in their filters for protected categories. Ad platforms should follow the law, that's working as planned.

As a side note, it's funny how people say that ads are terrible, but also its terrible if certain groups of people don't get to see ads.

Re:Why I Work on Ads by burkaman on Thursday May 06, 2021 @01:43PM (#27066727)
Same as saying that the draft is terrible, but having a gender-specific draft is even worse. We'd rather have no ads, but until that's possible, the least we can do is stop them from worsening social inequities.