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They are enforcing this part of the FHA (emphasis mine): >(c) To make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published any notice, statement, or
by astura 8y ago
They are enforcing this part of the FHA (emphasis mine):
>(c) To make, print, or publish, or cause to be made, printed, or published any notice, statement, or advertisement, with respect to the sale or rental of a dwelling that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation, or discrimination.
If people actually did place housing discrimination ads they'd also be in violation of the law.
(In general, laws are usually written in a way to prevent profiting off of illegal behavior)
- AdamM12 8y agoCan't believe you bothered to track down and post this on both my comments lol. Wasn't aware of that part of it. Also just because they can do that doesn't mean they should. Edit: Not sure why this got flagged. I acknowledged that I was unaware of that provision. Simply stated that I thought it was mildly humorous they commented the same thing on both of my comments.
- Maybestring 8y agoThey should. Allowing large commercial entities to facilitilate discrimination and only going after individual landlords would be an extremely inefficient use of limited resources.
- AdamM12 8y agoThe inefficiency of the process shouldn't be a deciding factor. Should be the justness of it. Facebook isn't discriminating. We don't punish shipping companies when their resources are used for drug smuggling. We punish the individuals involved in the illicit act. edit: Not entirely sure how arguing that our system should be a just one more so than one that goes after what is easiest is getting down voted so much but ok.
- AdamM12 8y agoFacebook isn't a party to a potential rental contract or contract to sale. They aren't in a position to deny someone housing.
- dgzl 8y agoNo, they're just in a position to allow rampant discrimination.
- AdamM12 8y agoCraigslist and Backpage "allowed" rampant sex trafficking but I'd imagine the HN community wasn't happy with government shutting down those sections of the internet. FB isn't the one engaging in the discrimination imo.
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- GordonS 8y ago> Facebook isn't discriminating This feels like a technicality - Facebook is overtly enabling, perhaps even encouraging discrimination.
- astura 8y agoAnd profiting from it. The HUD press release contains the following text, which is pretty damning: >Additionally, Facebook promotes its advertising targeting platform for housing purposes with "success stories" for finding "the perfect homeowners," "reaching home buyers," "attracting renters" and "personalizing property ads." Yowzers!!
- AdamM12 8y agoIs this sarcasm? Legitimate question because I don't see what the issue with these statements are.
- dennisgorelik 8y agoBut these ads do NOT indicate any preference. These ads simply do not run for the people outside of target audience. The main reason why racial preferences are not allowed to get published -- is because it reinforces public bias toward specific race. But if ads are simply not shown to some group -- what is the problem with that?
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- astura 8y ago>if ads are simply not shown to some group -- what is the problem with that? It's illegal, that's the problem.