# Social Media Moderation needs Humans

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 30, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-media-moderation-needs-humans/975817 "2022-11-30T19:14:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2022, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/social-media-moderation-needs-humans/975817/26 "2022-11-30T23:04:52Z")

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> [@naita](#):
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> If you want to engage in a great debate it seems to me you need to engage with the arguments presented, not only with the opening joke and the conclusion.

Here’s the middle part of your post:

> [@naita](#):
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> places like Twitter have put into place moderation policies against Covid misinformation, anti-trans messages, calls for violence, and they want to be able to do all of those. And in part that, like with election fraud, conservative voices have created a boogyman of “unfair moderation” that they can hang any and all negative experiences with moderation on

To me, that just sounds like an angry rant of accusations and propaganda.

Your average right-winger is just some idiot, the same as any other person of any political leaning and it’s not difficult to slap together some stereotypes about the group. Recently, for example, I noted the common conceptions of a left-wing person:

> [@Suburban Mom Handcuffed, Jailed for Making 8-Year-Old Son Walk Half a Mile Home](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suburban-mom-handcuffed-jailed-for-making-8-year-old-son-walk-half-a-mile-home/975046/26):
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> In general, I think that the general public associates (fairly or not) things like:
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> - Improper government intrusion into the family and how they raise kids (It Takes a Village)
> - Treating kids like babies
> - Treating adults like babies
> - Giving everyone a trophy for participation
> - And so on
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> As the proclivities of Democrats.

Do you think the Democratic readers of the thread generally took that as a reasonable and accurate description of who they were, or as partisan BS that denied their personal individuality and their diversity and complexity of beliefs?

If those aren’t true of you, then why do you think that your list matches them?

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