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Companies operating on Google scale should also have the scale to ensure that their ad platform doesn't enable people to target ads discriminately, especially w
by hw 8y ago
Companies operating on Google scale should also have the scale to ensure that their ad platform doesn't enable people to target ads discriminately, especially when it's on something like housing where there are laws against that. They're probably more worried about their quarterly results and shareholders than they are about potential problems until it becomes a big problem.
- sizzle 8y agoLet this be a lesson to all shareholders that they should pressure companies to operate lawfully and that companies have a fiduciary duty to them to obey laws.
- sorokod 8y agoRight, except what does scale had to do with anything? The law is there regardless of the scale.
- rocqua 8y agoScale is what gives these companies some cover from "not having human review". Not having human review is what made the scale possible.