Angola's Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing Loopholes in Zero Rating

Reader Jason Koebler quotes a Motherboard article: Wikimedia and Facebook have given Angolans free access to their respective websites, but not to the rest of the internet. So, naturally, Angolans have taken to hiding pirated movies and music in Wikipedia articles and are also sharing links to these files on Facebook, creating a totally free and clandestine file sharing network in a country where mobile internet data is extremely expensive. It's undeniably a creative use of two services that were designed to give people in the developing world some access to the internet. But now that Angolans are causing headaches for Wikipedia editors and the Wikimedia Foundation, no one is sure what to do about it.

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This is why socialism doesn't work

[erapert]

This is why socialism doesn't work even if it were moral-- which it isn't!

Truth:
1. People don't respect anything unless they, personally, paid something for it.
2. There's ain't no sech thing as a free lunch.
3. Not everyone is dishonest or behaves dishonestly. But enough people do that it's impossible to do nice things for others on a large scale without being abused.

So even if socialism was morally right it would still end in disaster.

But it isn't morally right to take (by force!) from some to give to others.