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Hooray for subcultures of internet sites and factionalization! Computers have created a bunch of strange new semi-political beliefs.

"We believe that storage is essentially free and more information is almost always better."

"We believe that maintaining quality SnR is most important in group editing situations."

"We believe that fair use extends to sampling and remixing but copyright holders maintain most other control."

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"We believe that it's possible for a group of unrelated uncompensated volunteers, acting together, accepting all comers, and embracing anonymity, to create an enyclopedia that will not only rival but possibly exceed the work of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and that it's possible to do that without creating at the same time a galactically monstrous hairball of cruft, misinformation, advertising, and vanity pages."

Some "factionalizations" are more interesting than others.

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