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Uh-oh .io: Question mark hangs over trendy tech startup domains as UN condemns British empire hangover

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Those who do not learn history...

It's all very well saying that A should give some land back to B because B lived there first, but if you accept that then how far do you have to go back to make things right? Should the French return England to the Danes and the Germans? Should the Danes then piss off and let the Germans return England to the Spanish so they can then argue amongst themselves over whether the descendants of the Celts or the Beaker people should have it?

So, sorry and all, but history is jam-packed full of stuff like this. Civilisations come and civilisations go, and to try to put things back like they were by drawing a line at some arbitrary point in time is a nonsense.

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