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               and made social media the new         Leibniz,  Kant,  Marx,  Einstein,
               mainstream media with power in        and others.
               the hands of ordinary people.
                  This  diffused  environment  is    Defining CST
               a    single    social,   political,   The  properties  of  CST,  i.e.,  its
               economic,  cultural,  religious,      character  and  behaviour  make
               educational,  informative,  and       the  defining  of  it  an  elusive
               psychological  space,  which  has     exercise  as  shown  by  its
               little  regard  for  the  real-world   philosophy.
               space  known  for  5000  years  of       Its  inherent  dynamism  as  a
               written human history.                worldwide  virtual  reality makes
                  It  is  where  people  develop     it  prone  to  use,  misuse,  and
               person-to-person       interactive    abuse,  which  demand  of  it  the
               relationships and find emotional      capacity and ability to change on
               support.                              a    second-by-second      basis,
                  Einsteinian  space-time  with      ethically.
               its  four  dimensions  of  length,       An  abusive  code  can  harm
               breadth,  height,  and  time  is  a   and  disable  large  parts  of  the
               natural  phenomenon  and  its         network in seconds.
               existence  is  independent  of  the      This    needs    a    constant
               human will.                           readiness to upgrade defences in
                  CST  is  a  creation  of  the      seconds with new firewall rules,
               human will and is alterable by it.    alternative  routing,  and  new
               Human  creation  exists  within  a    hosting;      patrolling     and
               natural creation.                     reconnaissance;           regular
                  It is an instance of the human     defensive     monitoring     and
               will  optimising  the  use  of  a     entrapment     operations    and
               natural creation for the benefit of   regular offensive probing- all in
               humanity.                             real time.
                  The  philosophy  of  CST              As      Al-Mustafa       Open
               transcends       the       earlier    University       (MOU)         is
               philosophies  of  space  and          approaching        this     First
               spacetime as posited by Newton,       International  Conference  on
                                                     Cyberspace  from  behind  the
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