Intercultural and Intertextual Crossings in Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade (2015) by Yasna Bozhkova

“…It also explores the political dimensions of Howe’s use of intertextuality, denouncing China’s history of repression and censorship, as well as the violence against women and the anxiety of miscegenation in traditional culture. …”
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Physical-social attributes integrated Sybil detection for Tor bridge distribution by Xin SHI, Yunfei GUO, Yawen WANG, Xiaoli SUN, Hao LIANG

“…As one of the most widely utilized censorship circumvention systems, Tor faces serious Sybil attacks in bridge distribution.Censors with rich network and human resources usually deploy a large number of Sybils, which disguise themselves as normal nodes to obtain bridges information and block them.In the process, due to the different identities, purposes and intentions of Sybils and normal nodes, individual or group behavior differences occur in network activities, called as node behavior characteristics.To handle the Sybil attacks threat, a Sybil detection mechanism integrating physical-social attributes was proposed based on the analysis of node behavior characteristics.The physical-social attributes evaluation methods were designed.The credit value of nodes objectively reflecting the operation status of bridges on the nodes and the suspicion index of nodes reflecting the blocking status of bridges, were utilized to evaluate the physical attributes of nodes.The social attributes of nodes were evaluated by the social similarity, which described the static attribute labels of nodes and their social trust characterizing the dynamic interaction behaviors of nodes.Furthermore, integrating the physical-social attributes, the credibility of nodes were defined as the possibility of the current node being a Sybil, which was exploited as a guidance on inferring the true identifies of nodes, so as to achieve accurate detection on Sybils.The detection performance of the proposed mechanism based on the constructed Tor network operation status simulator and the Microblog PCU dataset were simulated.The results show that the proposed mechanism can effectively improve the true positive rate on Sybils, and decrease the false positive rate.It also has stronger resistance on the deceptive behavior of censors, and still performs well in the absence of node social attributes.…”
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USAD: An Intelligent System for Slang and Abusive Text Detection in PERSO-Arabic-Scripted Urdu by Nauman Ul Haq, Mohib Ullah, Rafiullah Khan, Arshad Ahmad, Ahmad Almogren, Bashir Hayat, Bushra Shafi

“…Even though social media companies have censorship polices for slang, abusive, vulgar, and offensive language, due to limited resources and research in the automatic detection of abusive language mechanisms other than English, this condemnable act is still practiced. …”
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Contrafaction in Lithuanian book publishing during the first half of the XIX century by Aušra Navickienė

“…They appeared under conditions and factors that demonstrate opposition to the censorship rules. This opposition served as a model that influenced the behavior of book workers after 1864 and was used from the beginning of the ban on Lithuanian press. …”
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The creative history of Naki Isanbet’s comedy “Red-haired chichyan and Black-haired beauty” by Zamaletdinov R.R., Khabutdinova M.M.

“…The performance and the work were banned by censorship. The work was published in 1963 and returned to the stage in 1999 (directed by Farid Bikchantaev).…”
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The activity of Count Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont in the Russian Empire, with a focus on his St. Petersburg salon by Anežka Kotoučová

“…The paper examines how these levels interacted, while pointing out that Ficquelmont made extensive use of his privileges as an influential diplomat and one who was loved at the court to help guests in his salon circumvent some Russian obstructions, including the severe censorship of that time. Ficquelmont’s most famous guest was the poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, who gained inspiration from the Austrian Embassy building for one of his famous works. …”
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Lithuanian book publishing during World War I by Vanda Stonienė

“…The military occupation regime, everyday life difficulties, and harsh censorship exerted an extremely negative influence on the publishing of Lithuanian books. …”
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'Sanctifying Sex': Exploring 'Indecent' Sexual Imagery in Pentecostal Liturgical Practices by Sarojini Nadar, Johnathan Jodamus

“…What if, like Foucault suggests, a deeper engagement with the subject matter would show, not sexual censorship, but rather a re-channeling of sexuality? …”
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Mettre l’intime en bande dessinée. Un dialogue avec Léna Merhej et Noémie Honein by Michela De Giacometti, Laura Odasso

“…Originally born as a publishing platform to support works from this first group of artists, the magazine soon transformed into a collective and broadened its horizons to include comics made by artists from the Arab world and beyond. To avoid censorship, Samandal published in France, in 2016, the issue entitled Ça restera entre nous (It will remain between us), an unvarnished work about sexuality which includes the illustrated boards of 27 international artists in four different languages (Arabic, French, English and Italian). …”
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Self-representation: A review on Selfie Photos in Social Media According to Goffman's Dramaturgical Theory by Keyhan Valinejad

“…Partial or major self-censorship of our characteristics that are either undesirable to us or there is no reason to present them arises from being aware of this fact. …”
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Genesis of the term "savilaida": from collections of avant-garde poetry till Lithuanian neologism by Egidijus Jaseliūnas

“…A part of press publishers, multipliers, and distributors contributed to the partisan press or came in contact with it in 1944-1953; therefore, the entire press circumventing the Soviet censorship and published without the knowledge of the authorities was generally referred to as the "underground press". …”
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The book policy in a democratic society: the case of Estonia by Mare Lott, Aile Möldre

“…In the Republic of Estonia in 1918-1940, a special law on the press (1923) introduced post-publication censorship, aimed at the protection of morality. Several books were banned and confiscated on the basis of this law. …”
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Gardé·es à vue. Domination(s) et reconfigurations des rapports entre manifestant·es et policier·es pendant le hirak (2019-2021) by Lina Benchekor

“…But some people have more capacity for action and reaction, and the resources to resist censorship and pressure from the forces of law and order. …”
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Lithuanian exile press during five decades of soviet ban by Silvija Vėlavičienė

“…The Lithuanian exile press underwent a difficult journey to free itself from censorship and suppression. The restrictions and bans on the exile press were lifted only in July 1989, marking the end of a press ban that lasted nearly five decades. …”
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Power of emperor in Russian legal discourse of second half of 19th– early 20th centuries: justification and options for interpretation by I. G. Adoneva, Yu. V. Druzhinina

“…Without disputing the content of the «Fundamental State Laws» and guided by censorship considerations, the professors tried to convey to the student university audience the idea that the bureaucratic apparatus formed in the empire is a natural limiter of the imperial power; the legal framework is an obstacle to despotism, and the judiciary is in fact independent. …”
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The Role of Iranians in Istanbul in Publishing and Distributing Modernist and Constitutionalist Texts by Mohammad Hossein Sadeghi, Hassan Hazrati

“…Despite political despotism and press censorship during the Ottoman Hamidian period, Iranian activists enjoyed relatively more freedom compared to their Ottoman counterparts. …”
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Novella The Earthquake in Chile by Heinrich von Kleist in Serbian translations by Pasula Milica B.

“…His novella, The Earthquake in Chile, stands out in a row of controversial literary works which had shocked his contemporaries and was met with waves of disapprovals and censorships. Kleist's story has been translated into Serbian five times. …”
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