Hooray!
This could be termed: Screwing Facebook With Their Own Tool!
Facebook another item on the sell list.
Google next, I hope.
BTW, what the heck does this have to do with housing?
Next perhaps RICO for interfering with businesses.
When you get right down to it, Facebook, Google, and Youtube or nothing more then strip malls - places small businesses can set up a public face to sell their goods and services.
Would it be legal for the owners of the strip mall to shut down a business only because they don’t like their opinions.
It is worse then a strip mall since these three own almost all the “property” and they have been conspired together in a way that can be interpreted as restraint of trade.
Facebook, Google and Youtube believe they are too big to be brought under control. Well the Robber Barons of the late 1800s thought the same thing.
Good!
Rule 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
Alinsky's Rules for Radicals
Headline feeds a Democrat talking point. specifically this violates HUD regulations with regards to real estate discrimination and appears the ad policy does encourage such discrimination.
seems you can go after Face Book using the same laws that are being used to force Christian business owners to do business with groups and people they find morally corrupt.
It’s great President Trump is firing back but I’ll be very surprised if anything at all comes from it. Most likely, this is the last we’ll hear about it.
About time.
The liberals already control the MSM TV Networks and Newspaper Rags.
Now they are trying to control Social Media too.
They want to run off conservatives to own that media too.
That cannot be allowed to happen.
Using the Housing and Urban Development Department to seek justice because the Justice Department is in the hands of the sedionists.
File Sherman Anti-trust and RICO as well. Include Google, twitter and the rest of the soy boy sissy sect.
As a California real estate broker, for nearly 30 years, we have been frequently warned, trained to avoid certain discriminatory words and phrases in advertising.
“walking distance” implies disable folks aren’t welcome.
“family neighborhood” implies kids are not welcome.
Kinda shoots the algorithm all to hell, when you can’t discriminate with it; the VERY purpose of said algorithm.
It’s the modern equivalent of book burning.
My son and I are just starting to read Fahrenheit 451 and I am making sure to point out the absurd parallels to todays culture.
We now have the media that you would expect in a totalitarian state. And they went there voluntarily.
Facebook should move it’s operation to China
I'm not a lawyer and I didn't sleep at a Holiday Inn last night but if I was, I'd say let's start looking at the laws that give these sites "safe harbor" protection under the definition of being platforms and not publishers. Laws like the DMCA.
If I post something illegal on Twitter or Facebook, CEOs Jack Dorsey or Mark Zuckerberg aren't going to go to prison. They'll argue, correctly, that the DMCA protects these sites because Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, etc. are platforms and are not responsible for what their users post.
Except... When platforms like Twitter start censoring posts that are otherwise perfectly legal, these sites becomes de facto, publishers and should be held to the same legal standards that other non-platforms (discussion forums, for example) are.
Let's start there. If you want the legal protections offered to platforms, you need to get out of the business of censoring legal speech. If you want to censor speech, then prepare to be treated as a publisher, held responsible for everything posted on your site, and lose the "safe harbor" protections offered to platforms under the DMCA and other similar legislation.
Take em down! Little by little, take them the eff down.