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Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year ago

.io considered harmful

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.io considered harmful

UngodlyAudrey🏳️‍⚧️@beehaw.org to

Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year ago

The .io top-level domain funds and legitimises Britain's exile of the Chagossian people from their homeland. Here's the history and the facts.

This story really got my blood boiling. CW: involves a forced expulsion of people

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I find it funny how King Charles III is King of so many vanity domains. .gg? Guernsey. .io? Indian Ocean Territory, a UK overseas territory. .TV? Tuvalu, a commonwealth realm.

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