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Craigslist has a setting where you can explicitly say you're seeking a man/men, woman/women both, other etc.

Not calling out Craigslist --simply illustrating that regular tools meant to be used responsibly can be abused to accomplish nefarious ends.




Yes but in that example what Craigslist is doing is still legal. It is totally fine to be a person seeking a person including all specific permutations of gender. It's not ok to discriminate based on age for jobs. Facebook has a page for the specific purpose of advertising jobs to people on the basis of their age.


If what you're saying is that they have a purpose built tool to target jobs ads specifically to discreet ages, then it could be problematic --if it's not a dual-use tool.




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