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That's fine for some things. E.g. showing an ad for specific hair care products to black people. Not OK for housing/rental ads, credit/mortgage, etc. Facebook
by ams6110 8y ago
That's fine for some things. E.g. showing an ad for specific hair care products to black people.
Not OK for housing/rental ads, credit/mortgage, etc. Facebook should have known better from the start and never enabled that kind of targeting for those types of ads.
- samfisher83 8y agoThe thing its not a new law. Its been around for 50 something years. I remember they stressed this in American history and it was on the AP test too.
- jandrese 8y agoStill gets violated all the time too. When my parents bought a house outside New Orleans the realtor flat out told them which neighborhoods would be acceptable for them to look in.
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- iscrewyou 8y agoOh I really agree. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. I was just saying the headline sounds like old news when it’s not.
- tfha 8y agoWhy is it okay sometimes but not all the time? If there are predatory ads for mortgages, there will be predatory ads for snacks and video games as well. The goal of most advertising is to change your consumer behaviors regardless of what best for the consumer. In my opinion it's a huge net negative on society.
- duado 8y agoThis has nothing to do with predatory ads. It’s because these ad policies can be used to exclude certain races from certain housing which is illegal.
- reaperducer 8y agoFacebook should have known better from the start and never enabled that kind of targeting for those types of ads. If only Facebook has some money it wasn't using, it could hire a bunch of lawyers to look at its products and processes to make sure they are legal and ethical and lawful. Some kind of a team of lawyers. They could even made it a department of some sort. "Move fast and break laws."