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I made an ‘Ask HN’ yesterday about the dire state of bots on the web and the lack of conversation around it.

After a few mins, with 4 upvotes and one user reply it was [flagged] and I couldn’t even reply to the person.

So I am left with the impression we aren’t allowed to discuss bots on the web on this platform.

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This comment is appearing. However your submission is not visible to me, https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jimmy1337 appears to seem empty.

You're probably not allowed to discuss it here because the people who own this website are currently making a lot of money from content stolen by bots, to be ingested by other bots.

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