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	Comments on: Demand to FTC: ban Zillow.com valuations	</title>
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		By: David Wilson		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Wilson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A side story of note is, how does a &quot;community activist group&quot; nobody&#039;s ever heard of bring an admittedly baseless charge and get play in the NYT, without any quote from an actual person at said &quot;community activist group&quot;? (And how do I get a &quot;community activist group,&quot; anyway? None of these outfits have ever spoken for me, and I&#039;m in the community, aren&#039;t I?)

I realize the FTC complaint is a good hook. But if &quot;the organization also asserted, but would not provide substantiation for the accusation, that real estate and lending industry professionals use Zillow’s information to &#039;perpetrate fraud&#039;&quot;, why not press them on it?

The answer is that anyone who charges racial discrimination (in the usual fashion) gets a generous, no-hard-questions-asked presentation from the MSM. It&#039;s up the target to run for cover, apologize profusely for nothing, make a shakedown payment, start a sensitivity training program, hire a pricey &#039;diversity consultant,&#039; fire a few white males, install a VP of Multiculturalism and otherwise go into white guilt hysterics. The media cannot bring itself to ask even mildly challenging questions about charges like these. But if it won&#039;t hold a &quot;community activist group&quot; to the same standard it holds an evil corporation, who&#039;s doing the discriminating?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A side story of note is, how does a &#8220;community activist group&#8221; nobody&#8217;s ever heard of bring an admittedly baseless charge and get play in the NYT, without any quote from an actual person at said &#8220;community activist group&#8221;? (And how do I get a &#8220;community activist group,&#8221; anyway? None of these outfits have ever spoken for me, and I&#8217;m in the community, aren&#8217;t I?)</p>
<p>I realize the FTC complaint is a good hook. But if &#8220;the organization also asserted, but would not provide substantiation for the accusation, that real estate and lending industry professionals use Zillow’s information to &#8216;perpetrate fraud'&#8221;, why not press them on it?</p>
<p>The answer is that anyone who charges racial discrimination (in the usual fashion) gets a generous, no-hard-questions-asked presentation from the MSM. It&#8217;s up the target to run for cover, apologize profusely for nothing, make a shakedown payment, start a sensitivity training program, hire a pricey &#8216;diversity consultant,&#8217; fire a few white males, install a VP of Multiculturalism and otherwise go into white guilt hysterics. The media cannot bring itself to ask even mildly challenging questions about charges like these. But if it won&#8217;t hold a &#8220;community activist group&#8221; to the same standard it holds an evil corporation, who&#8217;s doing the discriminating?</p>
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		By: Pat W		</title>
		<link>https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/11/demand-to-ftc-ban-zillowcom-valuations/comment-page-1/#comment-4621</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat W]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wow.  I have never seen such stupid people in my life.  These morons actually believe that people get mortgages based on Zillow valuations.

I blame the public school system.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow.  I have never seen such stupid people in my life.  These morons actually believe that people get mortgages based on Zillow valuations.</p>
<p>I blame the public school system.</p>
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		By: Ted Frank		</title>
		<link>https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/11/demand-to-ftc-ban-zillowcom-valuations/comment-page-1/#comment-4620</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ted Frank]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 07:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have to think this is a put-up job by the realtors to restrain competition, since the only service they provide for their 6% monopoly commission is their database of comps.  Yet another example of how consumer advocacy groups hurt consumers.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have to think this is a put-up job by the realtors to restrain competition, since the only service they provide for their 6% monopoly commission is their database of comps.  Yet another example of how consumer advocacy groups hurt consumers.</p>
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		By: Tom T.		</title>
		<link>https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/11/demand-to-ftc-ban-zillowcom-valuations/comment-page-1/#comment-4619</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom T.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[These people are way off the mark in alleging discrimination.  Zillow is a bizarre mix of outdated assessments and outright fantasy; sometimes oddly high, sometimes weirdly low.  I&#039;d be shocked if there was any articulable pattern in it at all, let alone an invidious purpose.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These people are way off the mark in alleging discrimination.  Zillow is a bizarre mix of outdated assessments and outright fantasy; sometimes oddly high, sometimes weirdly low.  I&#8217;d be shocked if there was any articulable pattern in it at all, let alone an invidious purpose.</p>
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