"I’m doing the same on the phone so am I also spreading misinformation?"

 Yes but less efficiently.  The primary difference of Social Media is that a robot, or human with appropriate AI programming can produce millions per minute and exponentially spread the information per-minute reaching billions within an hour.  You couldn't do that on a phone and that's a big part of the censorship analysis.

 
"So those of you in favor of banning misinformation on voluntary social media sites where you have to follow someone to read what they say, am I correct in assuming you’d be in favor of a software program that listens to all phone conversations and notifies authorities if I use certain key words?"

 I think the phone companies would have to restructure to get this to apply equally.  Some sort of clause/contract that states that the phone, data, infrastructure and recordings are the private property of the carrier.  This way if you choose to use lets say Verizon, you know by contract every communication you make with that device is now the property of Verizon and can now be given to law enforcement without your consent.

 Then sure, have at it.


"For that matter, we have a ‘fair and balanced’ moderator on here but shouldn’t a government oversight committee monitor our forum and delete Jog’s anti-vaccine posts?"

 The Moderator has never claimed to be fair and balanced.  As for government oversight, if they had the resources, and the forum was structured in a way that before we were given permission to post we were informed that every post is now the property of the forum owner, or the US Government and can be governed without our consent, then yeah have at it.

 The difference is people keep confusing privately owned social media with public utilities, public forums, tax funded etc.  

I'm not fair and balanced.
99% of posts here are right-wing Trumpist views.
How is that balanced?

I'm the only balance you have.

FFS….. The fair and balanced moderator is a joke at my friend Sew. it’s not particularly relevant.

So I take from Eegore’s response that if the technological obstacles were over come, you’d be fine with government misinformation board listening in on your phone conversations and auditing your emails to look for misinformation as defined by some authority appointment. Correct?

IIRC, it wasn't actually happening..
But it was.
Look at what they want. And they have been doing it.


https://warroom.org/2022/11/02/dhs-censorship-lead-believes-big-tech-has-mora...



And it's imperative that it be done.

Of Course I see why lefties agree.
pop·u·lism
[ˈpäpyəˌlizəm]
NOUN
a political approach that strives to appeal to ordinary people who feel that their concerns are disregarded by established elite groups:
"the question is whether he will tone down his fiery populism now that he has joined the political establishment" · [more]
support for populist politicians or policies:
"the government came to power on a wave of populism"
the quality of appealing to or being aimed at ordinary people:
"art museums did not gain bigger audiences through a new populism

REEEE! A clear threat to Ahr Dmokkrusee!

Following the Tesla billionaire’s official acquisition of social media giant Twitter this week, figures in Europe have already begun demanding that Elon Musk adheres to their anti-free speech agenda.

Mayor Sadiq Khan, who during his tenure in office has spearheaded efforts to criminalise more speech in the British capital rather than spending his time dealing with the actual violent crime plaguing the city, demanded that Mr Musk continue the Silicon Valley social media site’s policy of combating “digital hate”.

We cannot allow children growing up today to be exposed to the vile [and] violent ideologies of some users,” the London mayor said, adding that “any decision about allowing suspended users to return must be taken incredibly carefully & in direct consultation with experts in countering digital hate [and] misinformation.

the site may remain restricted in countries that do not have First Amendment protections, such as member-states of the EU.

Thierry Breton, EU commissioner for the internal market, said Twitter will have to “fly by our rules” after Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of the company.

Tech companies will face greater pressure to remove illegal content under the EU’s incoming Digital Services Act.

A top European Union official had a warning for Elon Musk Friday about his $44 purchase of Twitter, telling the billionaire he will have to play by the rules.

regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are worried that Musk could, for example, allow former President Donald Trump back onto the platform.

Anybody have ANY Doubt that, 'the powers that be', are TELLING YOU, what to think ?????

        (NA, Says the Citizen)

Eegore wrote on 11/02/22 at 14:10:45:

AWSUM Spin/Deflection.

The POINT is, (which everyone KNOWS)
The Social Media/s Are CENSORING what they TELL employees TO Censor.
They Hire employees, who are UL FDS Socialists.
Then, HIDE THAT FACT

Just like they work very hard at ‘hiding’: “… when you share, post or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights on or in connection with our Products, you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free and worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate and create derivative works of your content …”

So one Will, post that most fantastic photo, or those cleaver words, (that they can sell), and they can Cover their Azz from lawsuits.

Censoring, is more complicated.  Ray Charles could see it is being done at a 10—1 ratio against Conservatives. Yet, proof ! When the Social media companies deny/lie/spin/deflect/etc/etc/etc …

Twitter STARTED as a Private company.
Facebook STARTED as a private company.

Later they BOTH became public companies.
During the time they were PUBLIC, they were censoring content, just like they were Private.

Now Twitter is private again and time will tell if it is Censored like it used to be, and if so, in what direction.

It is VERY CLEAR Clinton/Obama are doing everything they can to NOT allow the Truth to be told world wide.