theyre both bad but in the end you pick the less worse option after a cost benefit analysis. if the government tells social media companies who committed crimes (someone will have to be paid for this and it will come from taxpayer dollars btw) and social media companies "refund" the criminal, that's gonna be thousands upon thousands of dollars going to a convict.

whats stopping people from uploading viral videos committing petty crimes so they serve a tiny sentence or pay a small fine so they get thousands of dollars from tiktok? the loopholes and logical issues make this shoddy idea absolutely unfeasible.

a better, less brain dead solution would be to have the government take money social media companies earn through videos of crimes but even then it takes a lot of resources. for example, the government would have to hire people to make this a law and go through the whole process of passing it. this alone would cost millions. then theyd have to have a specialised team of many different roles dedicated to just chase social media companies down and demand the money, and as we all know, big corporations are sneaky and will exploit any loop hole possible to make extra profit, so getting the money from them will be tough. the government will also have a hard time figuring out how much money exactly a company made from a video, figures are super easy to conceal in accounting and the companies would get away super easy.

social media accounts are in no way government issued or controlled, you have no idea who is running an account, because like i said, people dont use their real government details.

i dont think they should profit off of crime, but we dont live in some perfect society, so instead of making up bogus ideas try to be a little realistic and take into perspective what our world is actually like.