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Re: .io considered harmful

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Post by rfw300 »

gowld wrote: post #100
regnull wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Weird. Also: > And so, Britain traded the land illegally. Whoa, strong claim. Probably backed by facts below? Nope. At the same time, Wikipedia: > In November 1965, the UK purchased the entire Chagos Archipelago from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £3 million to create the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). So, they bought it for 3 million pounds. Doesn't seem illegal to me.

That's like the Cuba buying Florida from the USA. Floridians wouldn't consider that "legal" People can't be legally bought and sold.

Ironic, considering the United States literally purchased Florida from Spain.

Re: .io considered harmful

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Post by munk-a »

WesolyKubeczek wrote: post #58
alexvitkov wrote: post #49

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Hello, I am an official representarive of the Balkan countries. A non-negligable chunk of our GDP is based on random Rust projects using Serbia's .rs and of course .me. If you stop using our TLDs our ecobomies will collapse. Kind regards, The Balkans

Serbians should really let go of the idea they can speak for all Balkan nations. -- Sincerely, Everyone Else

Suddenly Bismark's remark about bad things coming "[...] out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans" is echoing in my head.

Re: .io considered harmful

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Post by KomoD »

thih9 wrote: post #71
KaiserPro wrote: post #40

The article starts with "everything is FACT" then ends with: Every .io domain you buy funds a government committing crimes against humanity. Every .io domain you renew legitimises and reinforces the continued exile of the Chagossians. which is hyperbole at best, and bollocks at worst. .io isn't sold or owned by the british (or US) government Most people don't understand what .io is for, moreover the UK goverment has…

> The article starts with "everything is FACT" From what I’ve seen, “fact” (especially in all caps) is often used as a hyperbole, similar to “literally” or the skull emoji. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Generation_Z_slang

What are you on about, the article itself does not say fact in all caps and clearly fact(s) is not used as a hyperbole or slang in this article

Re: .io considered harmful

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Post by JohnFen »

gowld wrote: post #100
regnull wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Weird. Also: > And so, Britain traded the land illegally. Whoa, strong claim. Probably backed by facts below? Nope. At the same time, Wikipedia: > In November 1965, the UK purchased the entire Chagos Archipelago from the then self-governing colony of Mauritius for £3 million to create the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). So, they bought it for 3 million pounds. Doesn't seem illegal to me.

That's like the Cuba buying Florida from the USA. Floridians wouldn't consider that "legal" People can't be legally bought and sold.

I don't think that buying land is the same as buying people.

Re: .io considered harmful

#106

Post by teddyh »

benatkin wrote: post #96
teddyh wrote: post #39

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Are you a citizen of Montenegro? If you are, feel free to use it! Otherwise, I suggest that you use something else.

"feel free to use it" I feel free with my .co domain and I'm not a citizen of Colombia TYVM.

Good luck with that. What happens when there’s a dispute with a Colombian entity who wants your domain? Who do you think will have the advantage? Would you trust the Colombian registry and courts to favor you?

Re: .io considered harmful

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Post by account42 »

NewJazz wrote: post #60
meowface wrote: post #5

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I know this is good advice, but I simply value vanity TLDs too much to ever stop. I've got all of my projects' domains on absurd gTLDs and I'd never have it any other way. My users enjoy it and so do I.

Newer / weird gTLDs are not as problematic as ccTLDs in unstable jurisdictions, by any means. If they really are gTLDs, I wouldn't worry.

Newer gTLDs can start price gouging you at any time. Don't use them.

Re: .io considered harmful

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Post by fnordpiglet »

dijit wrote: post #35
durkie wrote: post #19

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how is it a "virtue signal"? what are they signalling? i'm curious where morality fits in to anything in your worldview if telling the (well-documented) history of a forcible displacement of a people is "virtue signalling" and "getting the morality into it".

Virtue signaling is the expression of a conspicuous, self-righteous moral viewpoint with the intent of communicating good character. It doesn't actually have to be virtuous, it only needs to signal virtue to others. Virtue signalling usually does not genuinely solve anything anyway it's merely supposed to impress upon you that "this person is good", that's the entire goal. Whether it's meaningful or not doesn't enter…

On the other hand, the article could also just be the expression of a strongly held personal belief about some injustice in the world.

The virtue signaling meme tends to be a way of denigrating strongly held beliefs that conflict with the person calling “virtue signaling” in some way, and frankly is a virtue signal of its own. There’s literally no need to call people out for “virtue signaling” other than to stand up themselves for other like minded (often conservative) folks.

Frankly I read this as more a strongly held personal belief that something was wrong and they are doing their small thing against it. They could have just done their actions in silence, but that’s not nearly as effective as enlisting your fellows in the cause you identify.

I personally didn’t know any of the history, and while I take the stated facts with a grain of salt. But I found it an interesting read, and if it is largely true, what happened is outrageous. I’m not divesting my TLD, but it definitely sickens me to know this happened and my country is complicit and actively a part of it.

Re: .io considered harmful

#109

Post by ocdtrekkie »

It's really convenient that you posted this, because I was going to reference a 2014 article about it in a blog post I am working on, but that article has also fallen off the Internet.

Re: .io considered harmful

#110

Post by organsnyder »

IceHegel wrote: post #88
organsnyder wrote: post #76

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This post is perhaps extreme (I don't know enough about the history to comment), but not only can we both learn from history while looking forward, but we should do so—best to put our most self-aware foot forward as we hope to expand beyond our planet.

In agree in the abstract. In practice, we are very over-indexed on these deconstruction type issues by selectively reopening old wounds, often along racial lines, which isn't leading anywhere good, defiantly not to mars.

Many of these wounds have never closed for the people affected by them.
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