The NY Public Library has scans of an 1804 book from China that shows 22 engravings of common punishment methods of the day. Shown here: a malefactor enduring the "punishment of the wooden collar." Can anyone translate the Chinese characters on the collar?
Link (Via BibliOdyssey)
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Manalapan, NJ - A Superior Court judge in New Jersey quashed a bogus subpoena for the identity of an anonymous blogger Friday, protecting the free speech rights of a critic writing about a local government controversy.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) represented the anonymous blogger, known as "daTruthSquad," on a site hosted by Google's Blogspot service. After the blogger strongly criticized a malpractice lawsuit filed by the township of Manalapan against its former city attorney, the township subpoenaed Google for "daTruthSquad's" identity, as well as for any emails, blog drafts, and other information Google had about the blogger. In a hearing Friday, Superior Court Judge Terence Flynn quashed the subpoena, ruling that the blogger had a First Amendment to anonymous speech.
"We're grateful that Judge Flynn upheld the First Amendment rights of our client and recognized that anonymous speakers should not be intimidated into silence through the discovery process," said EFF Staff Attorney Matt Zimmerman. "Now 'daTruthSquad' can continue to discuss township business without fear of government reprisal."
For more on this case:
http://www.eff.org/cases/manalapan-v-moskovitz
Contact:
Matt Zimmerman
Staff Attorney
Electronic Frontier Foundation
mattz@eff.org
It’s always invigorating when scholars and activists interested in the commons get together. Last Friday more than 100 of us convened in Milwaukee to learn how commons activism stretches back to the Magna Carta – and how seeds, sky, airwaves and city spaces spaces are vulnerable commons that need to be protected. The symposium was called, “From Magna Carta to the Sky Trust: The Historical Arc of the Commons,” and it was hosted by the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Kathryn Milun of the Tomales Bay Institute (and previous guest-blogger here) was a co-organizer of the event with Rachel Ida Buff of UWM.
Historian Peter Linebaugh opened with a brisk account of the role of the Magna Carta in guaranteeing certain rights to commoners. Linbaugh has a new book coming out in February, The Magna Carta Manifesto (University of California Press), which explains why this pre-modern document has a great deal of contemporary relevance. While you wait for the book (although pre-orders can be made now!), you may want to check out an essay that he wrote for the Boston Review, “The Secret History of the Magna Carta.”
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