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I know enough Internet history to recognize that ca.gov is a United States URL. However, I'd still like to request that HN headlines disambiguate California and
by brlewis 9y ago
I know enough Internet history to recognize that ca.gov is a United States URL. However, I'd still like to request that HN headlines disambiguate California and Canada.
Edit: As of this writing the title is "Net neutrality bill in CA". I hope the title gets changed soon enough to make my comment make no sense to most of the people who read it.
- JohnTHaller 9y agoAs this is a US-centric site, the abbreviation CA means California. Always has. Knowing that .gov is US only isn't necessary to disambiguate.
- jackvalentine 9y agoI've seen this attitude twice this week now, and it's unnecessarily hostile towards the 695 million English speaking internet users outside of the USA. Is it really that much of an imposition to change CA to California?
- brlewis 9y agoThis site is somewhat Silicon-Valley centric but also Internet-centric. On the Internet, two-letter codes for places are TLDs.
- hrasyid 9y agoAnyone here read the title and thought it was Canada? [actual question, I'm curious to know]
- brlewis 9y agoI read the title and found it ambiguous.