And I am not sure how this became the top comment. What? The very first point is discovery (which is fair) which just smoothly melds into discovery ON FACEBOOK

And I am not sure how this became the top comment. What? The very first point is discovery (which is fair) which just smoothly melds into discovery ON FACEBOOK? So we just assume bot discovery is best handed off to FB/GOOG/ etc? So now FB, in addition to being the de facto destination where your personal data goes to be exploited, is also supposed to "get their shit together" to enable even more of the data collection? Have you noticed how nobody from FB has actually ever engaged with anyone on HN around the ethical issues surrounding any of their practices? Your last point is about how everyone involved in bots seem to assume we already know how bots should work. You make the same assumption about who should lead this effort. I would rather the bot technology takes longer to pan out than see a world where the giant corporations are also the sole operators of the bot marketplaces.