Thursday, 24 March 2016

Angola’s Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems With Digital Colonialism

Angola’s Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems With Digital Colonialism

Wikimedia and Facebook have given Angolans free access to their websites, but not to the rest of the internet. So, naturally, Angolans have started hiding pirated movies and music in Wikipedia articles and linking to them on closed Facebook groups, creating a totally free and clandestine file sharing network. But what happens to the existing Wikipedia community?
Read more: http://snapzu.com/gladsdotter/angolas-wikipedia-pirates-are-exposing-the-problems-with-digital-colonialism

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