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This was an unhelpful way to highlight these issues. You can, but please also boycott sentry.io, github.io, gitlab.io, itch.io ect while you're at it, rather than blast a Tetris website?

I use none of those.

And how much of that is an inconvenience to you?

What does this mean? How does it have anything to do with "lack of historical understanding, lack of empathy" ?

I had also never heard of this, so did a bit of googling. Seems to be:

The problem for companies using the .io domain is that it represents the continued oppression of the original people of the Chagos archipelago. All proceeds from the registration of domain names goes to the Internet Computer Bureau, a former British company now owned by Affilias, a US company. Some of the profits from sales were supposed to go to support the territories, but the British government declared it has never received any money for this, and subsequently denied any responsibility for the support of the Chagossian people.

https://tamouse.github.io/blog/politics/2019/10/02/why-is-th...

Good point. I was thinking of getting a .io domain and you persuaded me not to. I knew what it was, but never really made the connection somehow.

Also worth considering whether it is right to buy other domains on TLDs run by Affilias and Donuts.

Your link to a .io says "Also, find a different TLD."!

The Chagossians have lost cases in both the UK and the US to try to return and the International Court's ruling is just advisory so it looks like they are not going to win that way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians#Court_battles

I cannot see the US being willing to leave unless provided with an alternative Indian Ocean base. That would probably mean throwing lots of money at some country.

Expecting a random software developer to be aware of this is beyond unreasonable.

You're putting words in other people's mouths.

Nonetheless, OP was raising awareness. The more awareness is raised, the more developers will be aware. Then, more developers will have to make a conscious choice (whether good or bad).

The irony of this article being hosted on a github.io page...

Sorry, I assumed everyone would know that without a reference. .io is a regional domain referring to those islands https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_of_the_Chagossians

If you don't want to use anything that shows lack of empathy, you would literally stop to have using every single product.

That's correct, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

Ah yes, the old everything is bad so nothing is bad argument

It's clear from my comment that I think capitalism itself is bad. I never claimed "nothing is bad." Please don't put words in my mouth.

You said you cannot make an ethical purchase in a capitalist society. I live in one, so by your rules I can only act unethically. This means effectively, there is no good or bad. This is a popular method of debasing people. Maybe you aren’t aware of that, but the poster you did the dog pile with certainly is.

>You said you cannot make an ethical purchase in a capitalist society. I live in one, so by your rules I can only act unethically.

And where's the error in reasoning, if we exclude your hurt feelings?

>This means effectively, there is no good or bad.

That's a stretch. There is more to life than mercantile consumption.

> This is a popular method of debasing people. Maybe you aren’t aware of that, but the poster you did the dog pile with certainly is.

I don't know what this means.

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