Almost tautologically, without Facebook this "auction" would have had to be done using an inferior option. Maybe it would still have happened. But in at least

Almost tautologically, without Facebook this "auction" would have had to be done using an inferior option. Maybe it would still have happened. But in at least some cases, that inferior platform will be worse enough for the crime not to occur. Even if it's just because EBay's design is stuck in the 90s. In any case, the "somebody else would have done it" argument didn't work in Nuremberg, and is generally recognised as a terrible conflation of morality with practicability.