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What about housing ad posted only in places like whole foods or a particular newspaper. I know my previous landlady did this.
by dominotw 8y ago
What about housing ad posted only in places like whole foods or a particular newspaper. I know my previous landlady did this.
- ghaff 8y agoIn practice, for better or worse, a lot of things escape notice when done obliquely at small scale.
- dominotw 8y agoYeah I guess there is a balance you have strike in order not to become an Orwellian society.
- jogjayr 8y agoIt seems to me that even though the intention of that is discriminatory in some way (and not necessarily against protected classes - the Whole Foods ads might be simply to target higher-income tenants), it's not in fact exclusionary. There's nothing preventing anyone who's not the normal target of these ads from going to Whole Foods or buying those newspapers. In FB's case the excluded audience has no chance of ever seeing those ads.
- dominotw 8y ago> There's nothing preventing anyone who's not the normal target of these ads from going to Whole Foods You could argue whole foods prices do prevent vast majority of ppl from going to whole foods.
- jogjayr 8y agoSure. But income or wealth aren't protected classes. And anyone can walk into a Whole Foods just to see the ads, without spending any money. There is targeting happening when you advertise in Whole Foods but it's not discriminatory against a protected class.