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果冻传媒app官方's Shibley in 鈥楩orbes鈥 on Harvard E-mail Scandal
FIRE Senior Vice President Robert Shibley for Forbes this morning. Criticizing Harvard's emphasis on public relations at the expense of faculty privacy, Robert writes:
If a liberal arts education is supposed to be a "marketplace of ideas," putting message control above all else is anathema. FIREand faculty members must be free to explore ideas and to criticize bad decisions, or the marketplace will not function. They can't do that if they believe that Harvard is going to read their email if they happen to forward something that makes life harder for the university's PR folks.
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