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This led me to look up whether the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Islands), and therefore the British Government, received any money as a result of the .io domain.

It appears not. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io

[1] https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld/ldtoday/writtens/11...

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The British shouldn't get money, but the Chagosians forcibly evicted by the British probably deserve it more than most: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagossians#Eviction

Sad that they aren't seeing a penny, apparently.

It's amazing to me that British seem to get the full PR whack of that attrocity when it was all under the auspices of the US who paid the Brits to kick them out.

Kind of like how we all collectively forget that the Allies dropped the bomb on Japan and not just the "Americans".

TIL that the Americans consulted with the British before dropping the bomb on Hiroshima (but declined their request for British participation in the mission). The Soviets were apparently not notified in advance (although I could be wrong about that) and the British had veto power over what would be revealed to the Soviets about the bombing.

I didn’t know any one else was consulted in any serious manner about the Japanese bombings. From the other poster it appears the UK was heavily involved? It’s def more than the US, but if only them, then not all of the “Allies” unless we’re only considering the US and UK the “Allies”. In the end though, both cases had both countries. Not to mention other situations in the world like the Middle East.

Not sure if America had anything to do with India. Probably not.

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