Hate speech or healthy speech, user friendly or user anxiety: An analysis of cyber world speech discourse

This study explores the extent to which particular cyber forums enable and provoke either hatred or healthy speech regarding social and political issues from 2013 to 2014 and then the public's response(s) to such discussions in Pakistan. The article originates from a study conducted on 'hate speech', a study of Pakistan's cyberspace 2014, by bytesforall.pk, a social forum developing professional and healthy activities among users. The assessment of the democratic and autocratic potential of cyber world media helps to understand cyber world as public sphere. By analyzing the extent to which specific forums within the internet sphere play a pivotal role in facilitating emotions, developing anxiety and creating hatred will help to propose regulations for cyber world. The paper also discusses the impact of individual narrative and personal perspective and its role in developing negative and positive space. It is an attempt to present a holistic account of how we might envision playing a beneficial role among cyber world users.