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Does this mean that using Facebook to target tech company ads at women or an unrepresented minority group, or LGBT people would also be illegal, even if the goa
by alasdair_ 9y ago
Does this mean that using Facebook to target tech company ads at women or an unrepresented minority group, or LGBT people would also be illegal, even if the goal is to reach out to these people to increase the diversity of the workplace?
- killjoywashere 9y agoNot a chance. The implicit paradigm in all these laws is an entitled, young, male, white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Think Trump or any member of the Bush clan in their younger years. By the time you're ready to enter the workforce, at whatever level, all other demographics have been beat down to some degree or another.
- danans 9y agoNo, because those are examples of protected classes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group
- Camillo 9y agoUnder US anti-discrimination laws, _any_ group identified by one of those characteristics is a protected group, with the notable exception of age. For example, laws against sexual discrimination protect men as well as women. In practice, it is unlikely to be enforced for some groups.