The Dark side of .io TLD
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The Dark side of .io TLD
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#2Paypal donate link to a gmail address makes me a little nervous. Is http://www.chagossupport.org.uk/ a legitimate and well-run charity? Where specifically does the money go?
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#3>They lost all rights to their homeland, now including the valuable .io TLD.
You don't want to know what happened in the United States... Or everywhere, to that matter.
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#4Paypal donate link to a gmail address makes me a little nervous. Is http://www.chagossupport.org.uk/ a legitimate and well-run charity? Where specifically does the money go?
Not registered in the UK:
http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfC...
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#5Paypal donate link to a gmail address makes me a little nervous. Is http://www.chagossupport.org.uk/ a legitimate and well-run charity? Where specifically does the money go?
It isn't a charity as far as I can tell (or at least does not have UK charitable status):
the only registered charity with Chagos in the name is the Chagos Conservation Trust[1].
This means that UK Chagos Support Association does not have to follow charity law (i.e. be open about their work among other things), have a purpose considered as "charitable" [2], be run my trustees that don't personally benefit and/or be run independently. However, they could still be doing these things but be unable to register as a charity due wanting to do things that are prohibited as a charity e.g. "benefiting interests of a narrow closed group" or "campaigning for a change of government" among others [3]
(Of course it is open to debate whether many actual charities properly fulfil the stated requirements)
[1] http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfC...
[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/what-makes-a-char...
[3] https://www.gov.uk/how-to-set-up-a-charity-cc21a#step-1-deci...
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#6Some background via gigaom:
The dark side of .io: How the U.K. is making web domain profits from a shady Cold War land deal https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-...
UK government denies receiving .io domain profits https://gigaom.com/2014/07/11/uk-government-denies-receiving...
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#7The archipelago was first settled in the 19th century, only about 1500 people were displaced, yes the British government mistreated these people by not properly compensating them because the US and NATO needed a military base in the region.
However there are urban restructuring projects every day in western countries that displace more people without proper compensation than this incident.
And while i understand that some people might feel they've been stripped of their homeland, but considering that the Islands were populated for the 1st time in modern history less than 200 years ago and remained populated for a period of only about a 100 years it's not exactly the strongest backing for a claim to a nation.
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#8The archipelago was first settled in the 19th century, only about 1500 people were displaced, yes the British government mistreated these people by not properly compensating them because the US and NATO needed a military base in the region. However there are urban restructuring projects every day in western countries that displace more people without proper compensation than this incident. And while i understand that…
> However there are urban restructuring projects every day in western countries that displace more people without proper compensation
Such as? Most western legal systems require compensation in such cases… at least in theory.
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#9The site pointing out the dark side of .io is ironically on .io TLD.
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#10The site pointing out the dark side of .io is ironically on .io TLD.
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