Bluesky's AI Witch Hunt Is a Moderation Problem in Civilian Clothes

The phenomenon one commenter called a 'witch hunt' ^[8] has a precise structure: accusation precedes evidence, collective punishment precedes investigation, and the outcome is the same whether the target is a bot or a human who writes in a way that pattern-matches to one. What Bluesky is experiencing is not a moderation failure in the traditional sense — content is not being wrongly removed by the platform. It is a social enforcement failure, where the community has built its own suppression mechanism using AI suspicion as the operating logic.