This thread was originally about the social and technical issues of scams in the context of irreversible ledgers, not legal liability. As far as that goes I am

This thread was originally about the social and technical issues of scams in the context of irreversible ledgers, not legal liability. As far as that goes I am in full agreement with you: Facebook and other Libra consortium members are likely to face quite a bit of legal heat from various jurisdictions desiring them to block or reverse transactions and willing to hold them accountable for others' actions on the network. In my opinion the only sane way to introduce something like Libra would have been to give up control entirely, along with the ties to fiat currencies, and make it a permissionless, decentralized system like Bitcoin. Exchanges in a decentralized system have various regulations applied to them but in the end they aren't inherently in the position of transmitting money on behalf of their users; nor are they strictly necessary for the network to function. Libra, on the other hand, will be seen as a payment system controlled by Facebook and the other consortium members, and Facebook itself as a money transmitter, not a mere buyer and seller of coins. Personally I find it much more interesting and productive to debate what the law ought to be rather than what it is, but as a practical matter Facebook will obviously need to take the various injustices of the jurisdictions in which they intend to operate into account—and the centralized design of Libra doesn't seem very well suited to deal with that reality.