tempest345
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"encouraging unrest in politically sensitive climates" - La Résistance in Vichy France would fall under this. In some countries asking for fair and democratic elections would fall under this.
I find it shocking how common this line of tough is now. Maybe the world dreamed about by people who actively celebrate the deaths of those who don't agree with them, is not such an utopia as we like to believe.
'Liberated' by invading first you mean. As was done in my country, among others.
My guess would be that historically 6.3V supplies made forvacumee tubes where commonly available when transistor based electronics where created so it made sense to utilize them. Works quite nicely for the typical 5V circuits as a "rough" input voltage to be feed through a LDO regulator, for example. And so it just stuck.