The deliberation I attended was titled “Who Owns Your Voice?” and covered the moderation of posts on social media sites.  I thought they did an excellent job at giving the backstory to free speech and its limits, including famous court cases like Schneck vs United States.  They also described the moderation policies of social media platforms like Instagram and Youtube which provided us participants with a good base to found our arguments on.  I also enjoyed how they put the definition of deliberation in their issue guide as those who had not taken RCL were most likely unfamiliar with the word.  When we got into the actual approaches, it seemed that one and three were the major favorites as the idea of the government patrolling social media sites seemed unrealistic.  I thought the approach teams did a great job outlining the benefits and downfalls of their approaches and being fair to the other teams.  I feel that sometimes the conversation did slow down quite a bit and they needed more questions to try and spark up more speakers as the conversation seemed to be revolving around a certain few people, an issue my group struggled with.  I was a big advocate for the third approach and mainly argued that there was no way for either companies or the government to silence every bad comment and that people can always find loopholes in their systems.  I believed the best solution is to let these apps run on their own and give users, people who will be affected by these harmful comments, the ability to report them themselves.  In the end, the community is the most integral part of any social media service and the decisions should be left to them.  Someone who argued for approach one did make a good point about how many times people are too apathetic to report these negative comments and they can end up hurting the people who do care.  I saw their point of view that people should be able to feel safe online without having to worry about being bullied or harassed, even for a short while before the comment is reported.  This made me more sympathetic to the idea of company regulation, but in the end I left sticking to the idea that the best system is one that is left to run by its own laws.