Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.
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Apply only the part of the name change that’s actually covered by US jurisdiction.
Strictly speaking, per the EO, this is what they should have done. The EO defines the area to be renamed as:
the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico
You can see exactly where that seaward boundary is on this map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_ECS_Regions_2023.png
The area described is less than half the whole Gulf of Mexico.
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I'm just the messenger, kid. I'm not even in the USA, I'm in a different hemisphere watching with popcorn.
Good luck over there 🫡
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Did you not read the page you linked?
That org was "established in its present form by Public Law in 1947 to maintain uniform geographic name usage throughout the Federal Government."
It's a standards-setting org that adjudicates between other agencies of the government when there is disagreement between them about a place name, it isn't entitled to rename things everyone was already in agreement about, lol~
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I mean, they are to an extent. The laws of the US are ostensibly supposed to allow citizens to call things whatever they want. If the government wants to throw a hissy fit and say the constitution is meaningless after all, let them do it. At least then we could give up all of the pretense that they are supposed to care about what it says.
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FUCK YEAH, DO IT DO IT FUCKING DO IT! Please sue the fuck outta those shitfucks!
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Yes, it sets the official name of each place. That's what everyone here is talking about.
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Who owns Yandex? Why would they need to pledge fealty to the new king?
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class action please, so we can let our powers combine
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Same here in Canada where we are not supposed to be a part of this insanity
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Again, read the page you linked:
President Benjamin Harrison signed an Executive Order establishing the BGN and giving it authority to resolve unsettled geographic names questions.
Key word: "unsettled"
