The (e.g., a 500-word blog post or a 2,000-word academic paper)

She knew what that meant. A year ago, a group of modders and ex-users had built the Unban Network —a decentralized, invite-only chat platform that mirrored banned accounts’ histories, saved their message threads, and let them talk again. No central authority. No sudden bans. Just pure, peer-to-peer conversation.

Leo sighed, closed the laptop, and looked at the person in the cubicle next to him for the first time in three years.