How much Internet flaming discourages public speeches

Abstract

One of the social cost of the internet flamings(“enjyou”) is to discourage speeches in the cyberspace. This paper estimated this cost using internet user survey and found that 15%∼20% of SNS users put some restrains on their speeches in the internet. We also found that number of participants to the flaming was very low, that is, under 1% of internet users. Frequenly participants have peculiar characteristics.