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Still doesn't mean that people actually know or care about the original intended meaning.

Lots of words have a different meaning now than they had originally. Not even talking about the meaning of acronyms.

The point of the article is to teach people about the original meaning, to encourage them to care, and to point out that by paying .io domain fees you are directly supporting this ongoing human rights disaster.

This is a time when BLM protests have led to various aspects of structural racism in society being reexamined. For tech, it's a good time to reexamine use of .io too.

If you entirely remove human nature from the equation then perhaps. But that would be pointlessly futile.

A completely irrelevant one