HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
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Re: HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
#2I was skeptical, but upon reading TFA, they do have a point.
Re: HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
#3We all knew that creating/adopting centralized communication platforms ("Web 2.0") was going to end badly, but that was where the money (temporarily) was. Now that they've taken over our culture, it's not surprising that every small time censor is showing up with their demands.
(Also, as we're going through an $ideology-scare, a disclaimer: I'm not criticizing the ultimate goal of anti-discrimination housing laws, nor even HUD for going after Faceboot here - but really pointing out the utterly predictable no-win situation these centralizing companies have created for themselves)
Re: HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
#4Here's the ProPublica stories that led to this
https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-lets-advertisers...
https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-advertising-disc...
Re: HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
#5I was skeptical, but upon reading TFA, they do have a point.
Yeah, although it seems mostly to be by accident: you can target you facebook ads to whatever group you want, so your bra sales only target women, or your stroller offers only target people with smaller children.
Personally I think the law is bullshit: what is interesting, and what we want to prevent, isn't landlords who can target only some group, but landlords who _do_.
But I guess facebook makes for an interesting target.
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#6>and/or zip code.
>effectively limit housing options for these protected classes
I have head of zip code being protected or personally identifiable information but never a protected class
Also fun fact, "age" as a protected class in the US only refers to discrimination against people over the age of 40.
Re: HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
#7We all knew that creating/adopting centralized communication platforms ("Web 2.0") was going to end badly, but that was where the money (temporarily) was. Now that they've taken over our culture, it's not surprising that every small time censor is showing up with their demands. (Also, as we're going through an $ideology-scare, a disclaimer: I'm not criticizing the ultimate goal of anti-discrimination housing laws, no…
How is it futile to comply with the law and not help facilitate discrimination?
Reminiscent of IBM's history.
Re: HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
#8I was skeptical, but upon reading TFA, they do have a point.
Yeah, although it seems mostly to be by accident: you can target you facebook ads to whatever group you want, so your bra sales only target women, or your stroller offers only target people with smaller children. Personally I think the law is bullshit: what is interesting, and what we want to prevent, isn't landlords who can target only some group, but landlords who _do_. But I guess facebook makes for an interesting…
How would you prevent landlords from targeting some group without a law that prevents landlords from targeting some group?
Re: HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
#9> The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in housing transactions including print and online advertisement on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, disability, or familial status.
Emphasis mine.
If the FHA does indeed prohibit online advertisement discriminating on those criteria, this sounds pretty damning to Facebook. Those are some of the key features of Facebook ads.
Re: HUD Files Housing Discrimination Complaint Against Facebook
#10>and/or zip code. >effectively limit housing options for these protected classes I have head of zip code being protected or personally identifiable information but never a protected class Also fun fact, "age" as a protected class in the US only refers to discrimination against people over the age of 40.
It's not really a protected class, but a case of redlining, which is, to quote wikipedia:
"the systematic denial of various services to residents of specific, often racially associated, neighborhoods or communities"