That’s just sophist gaslighting. If an individual perpetrated some act of sexual exploitation of minors, or even only facilitating it, would not simply pay $5000 fine per child whose life has been ruined and then they just continue on “doing their other non-criminal stuff”.

Stop trying to gaslight people and think about what you are defending and making excuses for, instead of basically being a conspirator facilitating these vile acts through excusing effectively no consequences. If your daughter was sexually exploited, do you think $5000 would be adequate compensation? Possibly even without covering therapy?

I am not sure about the particulars of this case and I think parents are also largely responsible just like any other criminal negligence case, but that is no excuse to simply let corporations who after all we are told are people, be some kind of superior, special people who are not punished to any even moderately consequential degree as actual, real people. Are they people or not? So they get to commit crimes but also not have actual, real consequences? Just stop and think about what a bunch of nonsense you are promoting.

We actually need a punitive system similar to the individual punishments. That would maybe look like a seizure of a percentage of the company similar to the percentage of one’s life one would spend in prison for a similar act. Yes, it would be a lot if it were, e.g., a 1/3 of the ownership of Facebook (which is easily done by forced issuance of shares), but that would also be the incentive to make sure that you, Facebook, are not facilitating child sexual exploitation.

The current problem with all of our systems is that there are only perverse consequences where the perpetrators of evil benefit and profit from the evil, while everyone else pays the cost. That needs to be flipped.