Stephen Downes

According to this article, "the discussions and research on these issues focus mainly on the attitudes of companies, policy makers and the media. So far little attention has been paid to the opinions of social media users." What the social media users actually want, according to the article, is to be free of harassment, bullying, hate speech, and all the rest of what plagues unmoderated social media. However, "the results also show that we do not necessarily have a universal consensus with regard to all specific trade-offs between freedom of expression and moderation. People's beliefs are strongly dependent on cultural norms, political experiences and legal traditions in the various countries." Note that as of this writing the doi link to the original article is broken.