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nyancrimew posts:
remember .io games? that was 8 years ago
therealkepler replies:
nowadays the only people that use the .io domain are technology sites
nyancrimew replies:
ok so .io is a “fun” lesson in colonialism and technology, like all two letter top level domains (yes all of them) it’s a country domain belonging to a country, io being the british indian oceans territory, an archipelago in the indian ocean. .io domains became so trendy because they’re easily marketable to tech people (io can stand for input/output), it looks kinda cool and at the time domains with .io were highly available with not many websites being created on the islands.
however .io is not like other small islands with highly wanted tlds such as .ai or .to, where the islands make millions off of domain sales and can rely on them as a big pillar of their economy. all profits from .io sales go to the UK, and despite a fight to get control over their tld the islands get nothing, not only did the native population get displaced in land deals and colonialism but their colonizer also heavily profits off of the territories sudden (indirect) trendyness with tech startups.
don’t buy .io domains, don’t support the british empire.
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I looked up the Wikipedia page.
Oh, ok. That’s not too bad actually.
Oh.
Ooohhh…
Ok, getting better…
Oh, it’s worse, actually.
Fuck the Biscuit Empire.
There’s a behind the bastards two parter on this topic
https://youtu.be/efzS1Jc7TX0
Omg I never knew BtB was on YouTube. I’ve listened to the podcast so much, feels surreal to see them talking.
i can’t believe the country whose biggest exhibit is of all the artifacts it’s stolen from other cultures would be so inconsiderate to other cultures.
…and changed for the absolute worst in recent years.
This is such a braindead reddit/tumble take. You can be anti-colonialism and even make not of the artifacts that ARE stolen without trying to imply everyone in British museums is stolen because of : haha internet meme
they’re not stolen because internet meme, they’re stolen because many of those artifacts are literally taken by colonists who have taken the land.
Hence why I mention some of the artifacts are indeed stolen.
Then why did you call that take braindead? They didn’t say that all of Britain’s exhibits are for stolen artifacts, just how their biggest exhibits are the stolen ones.
I would argue the wording of
Implies that at least a large amount of the artifacts are stolen.
That would be because a large amount of artifacts were stolen. The comment is referring to all of the artifacts within that large category of theirs. Do you think that all those countries that Britain pillaged and colonized just gave them those artifacts as a token of friendship?
That’s inherent to the idea of theft. We judge thieves based on their thefts.
It’s irrelevant if they also happen to have a bunch of stuff they didn’t steal.
A few stolen artifacts corrupt the legitimacy of the entire exhibit.
I appreciate that you prefaced your comment by letting us know it was a braindead tumblr take. I otherwise would have been confused since it’s centered around a point the original comment never made.
What point would that be?
Your English is bad or you type poorly. I assume you meant that the comment implied every artifact was stolen, which it never did. The stolen artifacts are stolen, and make up most of the largest exhibit.
Apologies I have a couple of disabilities that make it difficult to type without mistakes, but I’ll make sure to put in the effort as to not offend you with my “bad English” (:
what
What is the actual reason for this?
That’s disgraceful, to say the least.
The island is probably a good location for a military naval base in the Pacific.
Surprisingly, the British Indian Ocean Territory is not in the Pacific ocean, but the Indian Ocean.
Being serious though, yeah, it’s a really good strategic location
The UK also created a marine protected island around the Chagos archipelago islands in 2010. Someone put a nice summary of it’s goals on Wikipedia: "The primary purpose of the designation as a marine reserve was to create an excuse to deny the native Chagossian people the right of return. Unlike true marine reserves, the area is heavily polluted by the nearby military base, which is exempt from all restrictions imposed on the area. " That this was the actual intent is not just speculation, it’s been confirmed by Wikileaks.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagos_Marine_Protected_Area