The fundamental requirement for censorship resistance is content discoverability — it should be easy for users to find and access documents, but not to discover what they store locally, to preserve plausible deniability. We describe a design for “one-way indexing” to provide plausibly-deniable content search and storage in a censorship resistant network without requiring outof-band communicatio...

One of the primary challenges facing media outlets in Pakistan is government censorship. The has traditionally maintained strict control over media, often using a range legal and extra-legal measures to stifle criticism public discourse. This included blocking or banning various news websites, harassing journalists, action silence dissent. present study designed get censorship practices viewpoi...

Following the enactment of computer crime law in Thailand, online service providers are compelled to control illegal content including content that is deemed harmful or problematic. This situation leads to self-censorship of intermediaries, often resulting in overblocking to avoid violating the law. Such filtering flaw both infringes users’ freedom of expression and impedes the business of OSPs...

This study aimed to investigate the effect of social comparison on self-perception and mate preferences. For this purpose, 225 undergraduate student participants provided their self-perception before and after evaluating descriptions of stimuli subjects specifically developed with high or low levels of physical, social and status related attributes. Participants also provided a description of t...

Coming across an unknown creature generates anxiety. Its autonomy gives rise to fears; its agency requires vigilance. In the primitive world of predators and prey, it is wise to be leery of anything that moves and to learn as quickly as possible whether a creature is aggressive or possesses dangerous weapons of self-defence. What better way to find that out then to throw a rock at it from a saf...

The idea of customers’ empowerment in healthcare emerged in response to the rising concern that customers or patients should be able to play a critical role in improving their own health. In traditional healthcare practices, a patient is the recipient of care as well as medical decisions. However, a paradigm shift has taken place – that is, a change from patients who merely receive care to thos...

Achiever and Explorer player types are well known in MMOs and educational games. Players who enjoy being a winner, but dislike hard challenges (“Self-Validators”) are a heretofore ignored but commonly occurring player type. Self-Validators worry about and are distressed by failing. They can simply avoid playing overly difficult games for entertainment. But in a required learning game, Self-Vali...

Democracy: Marx’s theory of history (ex. Organization of the mode of production determines superstructure; unequal distribution of labor) explains the lack of actual democracy in capitalist societies; however, Marx’s thought concerning progression (also a theory of history) states that capitalist societies would eventually progress to a democratic state after a revolution of the proletariat. Ma...

INTRODUCTION ................................................................................... 403 I. THE PUBLIC FIGURE CONCEPT IN DEFAMATION LAW: FROM NEW YORK TIMES TO GERTZ ..................................... 404 II. THE ROAD NOT TAKEN: ROSENBLOOM V. METROMEDIA . 408 III. WHY ROSENBLOOM, NOT GERTZ, OFFERS THE BEST STANDARD FOR DECIDING DEFAMATION CLAIMS IN THE DIGITAL AGE. .................