justin massa » Facebook http://www.justinmassa.com maps, open data, housing, civil rights, nerd Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:30:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 social network redlining http://www.justinmassa.com/2009/11/social-network-redlining/ http://www.justinmassa.com/2009/11/social-network-redlining/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:00:37 +0000 admin http://www.justinmassa.com/?p=251 There’s been a flurry of posts and comments about Causes’ decision to abandon MySpace over the past few hours. I’m planning a longer post on this subject early next week, but in the meantime wanted to label this for what it is: social network redlining.

Causes’ justification sounds an awful lot like what financial institutions and the real estate industry used to say about poor and minority neighborhoods. Does this mean we need a CRA for the web?

More next week…

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