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the entire existence of the .io registry and the people running it, presently making money from it are highly suspicious, it's supposed to be for the benefit a

the entire existence of the .io registry and the people running it, presently making money from it are highly suspicious, it's supposed to be for the benefit and use of the people who lived in what's now called the "british indian ocean territory" in the general area of diego garcia. this is a place from which the natives were evicted by force. I somehow doubt they're getting any financial benefit from it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia as a reminder, ethos capital are the amazing people who tried to "buy" .org a while back https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethos_Capital https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethos_Capital If this doesn't fit the economics textbook definition of Rent Seeking, I don't know what does.

1cvmask 5y ago
If the Chinese did this the press would write about the genocide in Diego Garcia etc.... The UN resolution (international norms???) and International Court of Justice (ICJ) is being violated by the UK and US: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-mauritius-un-idUSKCN1SS2CR https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-mauritius-un-idUS...
- walrus01 5y ago
  Perhaps it should be possible to condemn things like what happened to the Chagossians and what's presently ongoing with the Uyghur people simultaneously
- holduptho 5y ago
  Hang on a second: how is the US violating anything here? You’re roughly saying that the UK’s error transmits to the US because they lawfully leased land to the US that they consider theirs. Of course the US is going to lobby to keep the base, and of course it’s horrific that thousands were forcefully removed to build it (and the US should compensate for that), but any interpretation where the US is in international error here due to Mauritian sovereignty considerations is plainly transparent in its purpose (particularly in a comment that references China off the bat). That’s the UK’s problem. Notice the Mauritian prime minister in the very article you linked only discussed problems with the UK.
duud 5y ago
Yet another reason to stick to .com http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html

1cvmask 5y ago

If the Chinese did this the press would write about the genocide in Diego Garcia etc.... The UN resolution (international norms???) and International Court of Justice (ICJ) is being violated by the UK and US: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-mauritius-un-idUSKCN1SS2CR https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-mauritius-un-idUS...

walrus01 5y ago
Perhaps it should be possible to condemn things like what happened to the Chagossians and what's presently ongoing with the Uyghur people simultaneously
holduptho 5y ago
Hang on a second: how is the US violating anything here? You’re roughly saying that the UK’s error transmits to the US because they lawfully leased land to the US that they consider theirs. Of course the US is going to lobby to keep the base, and of course it’s horrific that thousands were forcefully removed to build it (and the US should compensate for that), but any interpretation where the US is in international error here due to Mauritian sovereignty considerations is plainly transparent in its purpose (particularly in a comment that references China off the bat). That’s the UK’s problem. Notice the Mauritian prime minister in the very article you linked only discussed problems with the UK.

duud 5y ago

Yet another reason to stick to .com http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html http://www.paulgraham.com/name.html