<![CDATA[Public Shaming 2.0]]>Regina Rini thinks through the ethics of a sentence where a man was forced to either go to jail or "post an apology – one written for him by the magistrate – on his Facebook wall every single day for one month":

People see their social media profiles as extensions of themselves, in a way that they do not see a traditional letter, even one issued in their name. It therefore seems that much more threatening to be compelled to utter someone else’s words through Facebook.

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