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Whose Free Speech Is It Anyway?
A letter in Harper's Magazine argues that social media public shamings hamper free speech. Claire Potter, professor of history at The New School, and the executive editor of Public Seminar, a digital magazine of politics and culture based at The New School, signed the letter, and Malaika Jabali, writer, activist and attorney, signed a response letter that argued the original letter “does not deal with the problem of power.”