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threeseed

Can we please stop with the hyperbole ?

Facebook absolutely deserves to be regulated but right now nothing they or Zuckerberg has done is remotely illegal.

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Don't confuse legality with morality.

And people should only go to prison when they commit a crime.

The rule of law does not centre around who is nice or not.

That's exactly what OP is saying: since they're not going to prison because the law lets them continue, it won't stop.

Why is this downvoted?

It’s a false conclusion. The OP is making a moral/ethical statement, and says that prison time is the only way to motivate the wrongdoers to conform. That’s different than asserting that a crime under current laws has taken place.

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