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Compliance. If they lock down microtargetting for housing related ads and have some code to flag housing ads posted in different categories they become complia
by astura 8y ago
Compliance.
If they lock down microtargetting for housing related ads and have some code to flag housing ads posted in different categories they become compliant with the law. Nobody says they have to be 100% perfect to be compliment.
- perl4ever 8y agoSure, but if you think the law serves a purpose, then one may ask whether being technically compliant is success.
- maratd 8y agoIt's a start. They weren't even doing that.
- quotemstr 8y agoYour use of the phrase "it's a start" suggests that further restrictions will follow.
- MBCook 8y agoNo, it implies that they at least appeared to be trying, even if it wasn’t very effective. As it is they don’t seem to have put in the smallest possible effort to comply and decided to ignore the law completely.
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- quotemstr 8y agoIs it more important that they "appear[] to be trying" than that the policy imposed on them actually achieve the ostensible policy goal?
- MBCook 8y agoFor their legal case? I’d think so. It looks way better that you were trying to do something and weren’t very effective than that you decided not to bother. For their need to comply? No. They have to follow ineffective laws as long as they’re on the books.
- perl4ever 8y agoWhere did people jump to the conclusion that following the law is incompatible with the goal of the law? Saying that it might be insufficient is a different matter.
- perl4ever 8y agoYou're responding to me as though I was providing Facebook's defense for not complying. I wasn't. I was saying that if Facebook technically complies, that isn't necessarily sufficient.
- perl4ever 8y ago"if you think the law serves a purpose" Surely it is not controversial here to suggest that anti-discrimination laws serve a purpose and therefore if someone finds a loophole that does not mean it is just fine? I was just reading in Jalopnik about how Toyota added reinforcement to their minivan to deal with small offset driver's side impacts, and then when a test for a similar passenger side impact was done, surprise surprise, there was no symmetric reinforcement on that side!