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Re:Big tech face EU blow in national data watchdogs ruling by tremon on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @07:25AM (#27513705)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles

> The British Isles are a group of islands in the North Atlantic off the north-western coast of continental Europe, consisting of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Hebrides and over six thousand smaller islands. [They] include two sovereign states, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Re:Big tech face EU blow in national data watchdogs ruling by anonymousDan on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @07:55AM (#27513970)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute

No-one in Ireland would refer to them as the British Isles.

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Re:Big tech face EU blow in national data watchdogs ruling by dangerface on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @09:22AM (#27515037)
I do
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Re:Big tech face EU blow in national data watchdogs ruling by overscore on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @04:27AM (#27526194)
No-one is obviously hyperbole, but it's extremely uncommon in Ireland. It's a shortcut to start an argument, for sure.
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Re:Big tech face EU blow in national data watchdogs ruling by dangerface on Friday June 18, 2021 @12:01PM (#27551743)
People in Northern Ireland like me consider themselves British and we are a third of the population, while obviously not the majority I wouldn't call it uncommon.
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Re:Big tech face EU blow in national data watchdogs ruling by overscore on Friday June 18, 2021 @01:26PM (#27552703)
I also believe anyone in Northern Ireland who consider themselves to be British are British. However, does that imply usage of the term "British Isles"?

Simply Britain and Ireland (or Ireland and Britain) is far more commonly used if referring to the archipelago.

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Re:Big tech face EU blow in national data watchdogs ruling by s_dev on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @07:59AM (#27514013)
According to your own source the term is disputed -- a substantial amount of the article is dedicated to the dispute.
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Re:Big tech face EU blow in national data watchdogs ruling by overscore on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @04:26AM (#27526186)
As your own link states, it's a controversial term and its use is objected to by the Irish Government: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute

The talk pages and edit history for the Wikipedia article on the British Isles term are interesting. You can see the arguments and edit wars. Much like the insistence on naming the country page for Ireland the "Republic of Ireland' (which is our football team and country descriptor, not the name of the country), I think Wikipedia are on the wrong side of history here, but some editors até vociferous in their objections to change.

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