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I'm aware of this. I'm just slightly offended by the title. None of my government's URLs end in a .gov. By not acknowledging this, the title ignores my country'

by msm_ 3y ago

I'm aware of this. I'm just slightly offended by the title. None of my government's URLs end in a .gov. By not acknowledging this, the title ignores my country's existence. It's like I wrote a blog post "Government URLs that don't end in .gov.pl")

Zetice 3y ago
Such is the US's reward for building out the nascent infrastructure of the early Internet. Also, this is a US centric site run by a US based company. The "American" part is implied unless explicitly stated otherwise.
- lol768 3y ago
  > Such is the US's reward for building out the nascent infrastructure of the early Internet. Like the world-wide-web we're all using to discuss this topic via? Oh, wait. > Also, this is a US centric site run by a US based company. The "American" part is implied unless explicitly stated otherwise. It is unfortunate that the point you are trying to express here has been worded in a way which does nothing but to reinforce stereotypes that Americans are arrogant and excessively nationalistic, since I'm sure that wasn't your intention. As dang has pointed out previously, Americans only make up about half of the audience here - and they may even be a minority today (this comment and the data referenced within it is a good 3 months old): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35464697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35464697