Brian Gettler on Nostr: The shopping mall developed as a commercial response to this new environment. People ...

The shopping mall developed as a commercial response to this new environment. People could acquire the goods they wanted in a collection of shops imagined by architects as a suburban recreation of the old "town square." The trouble, of course, is that the mall was private, not public space. In the US, the Supreme Court initially held that free speech - that is, protest - was protected in this new space (though courts have cut back on this protection over time).

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