Ask HN: Should political social media posts be captcha’d?
Simple question, should we require users that make references to politics in their post be required to pass a captcha before their post is submitted?
Your actual question is really -- "Should all social media posts be CAPTCHA'd?" Because that's the only way this could work on a technical or logical level.
I'm a big proponent of anti-bot measures on platforms, but you have to balance that against reasonableness. CAPTCHA-challenging at random intervals with higher frequency with new or dormant accounts would be ideal.
I don't considering trying to identify what is "political" as a worthwhile use of time or resources (least of all because no two people would agree on a definition e.g. COVID-19 political or not? Highways political or not? Wild fires political or not?).