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The Trump DOJ has joined a lawsuit filed by the National Fair Housing Alliance against Facebook. In a so-called statement of interest, the department suggested that Facebook could be held liable if housing providers like real estate developers and landlords used the site's targeting tools to discriminate against prospective renters and buyers in advertising their properties. Such tools limit who can see ads based on factors like sex, religion and nationality, and advertising restricted along those lines violates the Fair Housing Act.
Also at NYT, Market Watch, NPR, Washington Post.
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Justice Dept. Backs Suit Accusing Facebook of Violating Fair Housing Act
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday August 21 2018, @10:28AM
It's not like your IP address is changing every single second with Tor, and there should be plenty of exit nodes.
Time and time again some of the same accounts/trolls will share the same IPID, post around the same time, etc.
Posts around here aren't so bad that they should constitute removal. Probably the worst are from "violently imposed downmod? I'll post another 15 times" guy. If a comment is a 99% character-for-character copy of another comment, it should be nuked.
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