Supposing they were held in contempt, what does that mean?<p>I’ve seen this story a couple of times now and both sources had the quote, “Nobody is going to come with some handcuffs and arrest them, but to be held in contempt by an entire country would not serve any platform well.”<p>I would assume that there would be some punishment though, otherwise what power does a summons really have? Or is it just assumed that the market will punish Facebook because users won’t want to use the service of a founder who has been held in contempt of parliament?
One of the biggest issues with social network is when you scale from a specific region to global scale. For example - carrying a weapon (for safety or religious reasons) could be totally normal in certain parts of the world but now when you put that on a global scale it can cause lot of conflicts in views of other people because they may not find it OK. This is something all social networks have failed to address on bigger scale.<p>Going after company executives is not going to solve this problem, maybe they should try to force companies to address these issues.