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I know it isn't Facebook's fault when things like this pop up (though they notoriously don't respond or react quickly/at all), but it's unfair that they ultimately don't face any consequences. If it were a small local site they'd likely be forced out of existence in short order.

Countries can't let Facebook get a free pass on these things just because they're Facebook.

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You say it isn't facebook's fault and then go on to say they should be punished. Why should anyone be punished for something they didn't do?

I'm saying a lot of sites are punished, but Facebook is able to get through/away with it because of scale. It's very much a two-tier punishment system.

Such a colossal platform is given leniency all around under the "we have too much content to police effectively" model.

most of it comes down to effective use of lawyers, not scale

although these things can be correlated, use of client-attorney privilege stonewalls a lot of pencil-pusher investigations and protects the entity from sanctions

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