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Re:Angola’s Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems with... by sampo on Friday March 25, 2016 @11:10AM (#11360454)
> play by the same rules as everyone else

Actually, your "everyone else" who play by the Western rules, is probably less than half of the world population.

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Re:Angola’s Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems with... by notahacker on Friday March 25, 2016 @11:27AM (#11360579)
Nope, everybody on Facebook and Wikipedia is expected to play by Facebook and Wikipedia's rules, regardless of whether their local laws are stricter or laxer.
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Re:Angola’s Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems with... by jrochkind1 on Monday March 28, 2016 @12:48AM (#11372784)
The vast majority of people on facebook and wikipedia are not limited to internet access _only_ to those two sites however.

If the only internet I had was that, and I had no way to start my own internet sites either, I'm sure I'd be trying to find ways to use them for what I wanted regardless of their rules too. As it is, I've got the whole internet and have no reason to try and abuse facebook or wikipedia that way.

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