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> the involvement of senior Facebook leadership

If anyone perjured themselves, granted. If not, criminalizing this lets anyone in power go after anything with any economic heft.

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Beating someone with a stick isn't the only way to cause harm. And if you cause harm to 40 million people, you should be held accountable - it should be treated as a crime.

> if you cause harm to 40 million people, you should be held accountable

Yes.

> it should be treated as a crime

Crime means jail. Not just for the folks you want in jails. For anyone who the people with power drive should be in one.

I am, in fact, fine with anyone in power going after any company's senior leadership which makes a "clear intentional and systematic nature of repeated misstatements" while committing crimes violating privacy laws 40 million times. I am very equal opportunity punishment for all serial lying criminals. What part of what you said was supposed to be undesirable?

> fine with anyone in power going after any company's senior leadership which makes a "clear intentional and systematic nature of repeated misstatements" while committing crimes violating privacy laws 40 million times

You’re describing a wet dream for Silicon Valley’s elites. Reducing the courts’ ability to check prosecutorial discretion is an ongoing project there.

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