Both Facebook and Craigslist automatically censors any rental listing with a gender/sex keyword.<p>I am not even allowed to describe the sex of the other tenant who is already living in the suite. It's a machine algorithm block, they don't even need other users to flag the posting. It's an automatically ban.<p>Does any person think the wording below is prohibitive or discriminating?<p>> We are renting out one room in a 2-bedroom basement suite. The suite has two rooms. One room is already rented by a university <i>male</i> student.
We are looking for a responsible and respectful tenant to rent the other room. This is ideal for a student or a young professional individual.<p>I confirm that the offensive word above is <i>male</i>. Once I remove it. the posting is ok.<p>My question is what algorithm Facebook and Craigslist use to flag and block posting. what's the reason that they would flag a posting like this?
Assuming this listing is for a property in the United States, even mentioning any protected class, whether for existing tenants or new tenants, will likely run you afoul of HUD regulations. I'd imagine no listing website wants to assume liability for discriminating against prospective tenants.
Because a lot of landlords discriminate with illegal listings that explicitly require only female tenants so they probably just flag any listing with gender