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You can’t effectively punish a company, especially not a company the size of Facebook.

But if individuals go to prison for their actions, people will be more careful how they act.

Corporate death penalty.

Not sure why this is downvoted as it brings up an interesting position. Why can't there be violations so severe that they force the corporation to be dissolved?

It happens, just less often than is probably healthy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/us/ny-nra-lawsuit-letitia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen

I wished that was meted out as a punishment much more often than it is done today. It is a very powerful message to send: these execs are not bankable because they caused all of their shareholders to lose money.

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