Generally that's not actually breaking the law. Avoiding accidents, following reasonable directions from road crews and the like explicitly override other laws.
Only network engineers should see or care about IP addresses. The fact IPv6 addresses use colons is why people don't use IPv6 is the worst take I've ever heard.
Apple's official graphics API is Metal. There is plenty of documentation for that. Apple considers Metal a commercial advantage over OpenGL / Vulkan. That is; they want developers to develop against Metal.
The problem is we don't know how many hoaxes are there and have _not_ been discovered. If there are a lot, then the model is failing, if there are only a few, then it is working.
Alas, without that data, we can't make a call on the wikipedia article either way.
One of the points of the article is the head/skull usually associated with the Brontosaurus was incorrect, as well as the body being a duplicate.
So with the usual headline sensationalism, it is fair to say "it never existed". More accurately, one could say something like "the dinosaur popularly known as brontosaurus, is actually a aptosaurus with a different head..." But as a headline, it lacks punch.