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Re: Government URLs that don't end in .gov

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Post by dudeinjapan »

pc86 wrote: post #157
dudeinjapan wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://search.gov/about/policy/govt-urls.html "Federal executive branch agencies must ensure their non-.gov or .mil domains are on the list." Also on this page, there is an "out of scope" list which only includes 4 things: SaaS, cloud resources, SNS sites, and code repos. I take the govt at its word--it has never lied before--so naturally covert ops must be "in-scope".

> In Comments > ... Don't be snarky. ... Edit out swipes. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In the words of the great philosopher Popeye: "I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam."

Re: Government URLs that don't end in .gov

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Post by lol768 »

Zetice wrote: post #194
msm_ wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm aware of this. I'm just slightly offended by the title. None of my government's URLs end in a .gov. By not acknowledging this, the title ignores my country's existence. It's like I wrote a blog post "Government URLs that don't end in .gov.pl")

Such is the US's reward for building out the nascent infrastructure of the early Internet. Also, this is a US centric site run by a US based company. The "American" part is implied unless explicitly stated otherwise.

> Such is the US's reward for building out the nascent infrastructure of the early Internet.

Like the world-wide-web we're all using to discuss this topic via? Oh, wait.

> Also, this is a US centric site run by a US based company. The "American" part is implied unless explicitly stated otherwise.

It is unfortunate that the point you are trying to express here has been worded in a way which does nothing but to reinforce stereotypes that Americans are arrogant and excessively nationalistic, since I'm sure that wasn't your intention.

As dang has pointed out previously, Americans only make up about half of the audience here - and they may even be a minority today (this comment and the data referenced within it is a good 3 months old): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35464697

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