Re:An Appeal to Google: Make ".io" a gccTLD
by TheCoelacanth on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @10:06AM
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I don't see how it's chauvinist to suggest that a "country" with no human inhabitants except for foreign military personnel doesn't need its own ccTLD.
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Re:An Appeal to Google: Make ".io" a gccTLD
by Uchikoma on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @11:37AM
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So when I remove you forcibly from your land (which the inhabitants were by the British government), then I steal your land and later I declare there is "no general population" so you have no right to a TLD either, it is not chauvinist when I declare you non existent? Because you were native and could not defend yourself against a modern army?
Re:An Appeal to Google: Make ".io" a gccTLD
by Uchikoma on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @11:50AM
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"On 11 May 2006, the High Court ruled that a 2004 Order in Council preventing the Chagossians' resettlement of the islands was unlawful, and consequently that the Chagossians were entitled to return to the outer islands of the Chagos Archipelago. [...] According to a WikiLeaks disclosure document, in a calculated move in 2009 to prevent re-settlement of the BIOT by native Chagossians, the UK proposed that the BIOT become a "marine reserve" with the aim of preventing the former inhabitants from returning to their lands. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Indian_Ocean_Territory
that's because it isn't.