This is why you shouldn't use .io domains. It sounds cool but you're indirectly sponsoring a military base where people were tortured and because of which people were deported.
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UK suffers defeat in UN vote on Chagos Islands
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#32> focusing dissatisfaction over its permanent seat on the UN security council.
But China isn’t having dissatisfaction focused on it for their permanent seat? That’s rich. When China gives back Tibet, then perhaps we can talk about dissatisfaction about the U.K. on the Council.
Re: UK suffers defeat in UN vote on Chagos Islands
#33This is why you shouldn't use .io domains. It sounds cool but you're indirectly sponsoring a military base where people were tortured and because of which people were deported.
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Re: UK suffers defeat in UN vote on Chagos Islands
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really? That’s what you take away from this? Never asked yourself what hell European countries still doing in places like this? Unfortunately it’s not actionable but the message is clear.
They discovered and conquered these places a long time ago. Those places basically belong to them. That’s how it works.
I could murder you and take all of your property. It would basically belong to me. That's how it works.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io
"After being questioned as a result of the interview, the British Government denied receiving any funds from the sale of .io domain names"
So according to the linked article, no: .io names give nothing to Britain.
Re: UK suffers defeat in UN vote on Chagos Islands
#36This is why you shouldn't use .io domains. It sounds cool but you're indirectly sponsoring a military base where people were tortured and because of which people were deported.
Based on cursory research the British government has refuted the claim that any money is given to them from .io domain registrations.
Re: UK suffers defeat in UN vote on Chagos Islands
#37Time to give up on the UN. More and more irrelevant every day.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments, let alone flamebait like this, to Hacker News.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io
"After being questioned as a result of the interview, the British Government denied receiving any funds from the sale of .io domain names" So according to the linked article, no: .io names give nothing to Britain.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
No the folks there are happy to be French, enjoying the EU passport and French safety net.
I'm sure a bunch of people in third world countries would be happy to have US/EU passports, but it would still be colonialism for US/European countries to annex them, wouldn't it?
Colonialism is a double edged sword. France now has a responsibility to those islands.
The Netherlands has the same problem: a bunch of fairly useless Caribbean islands that were a good idea at the time but are an anachronistic leftover from a different past now.
It would be criminal to just dump them now.
Re: UK suffers defeat in UN vote on Chagos Islands
#40This is a British source that describes why the Chagos islands are so contentious: https://politicsfirst.co.uk/editorials/britains-shame-the-et...
It is staggering to hear arguments justifying occupied land that has absolutely no connection to the uk. It shows how poorly the west still understands the evil of colonialism.
Regardless of the ancestry of the people living in any territory, they deserve to have sovereignty over their lives.