Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.
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Restrict Google from doing business.in the country altogether.
Have phones switch to some open non Google platform
Fuck google, microsoft, apple, they're all evil at this point
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Don’t “threaten”. Any asshole can make a threat. GO AHEAD AND DO IT.
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This is accurate. Here's a screenshot from my friend in France.
Ok, that's absurd. I thought it makes sense to change the name in the US if that's the official name in the US (according to the USGS data, which has always been the official source for this info). But translating the US name into other languages that already have a name for it makes no sense.
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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~
Yes, it sets the official name of each place. That's what everyone here is talking about.
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Funny thing - I just checked yandex maps (because I'm bored) and it still shows "gulf of mexico" on it.
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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Again, this is one of the dumbest fucking wastes of money I've ever seen. Waste of labor from the top down. Waste of resources. This is purely a pride move. It's the gulf of Mexico and always has been. There are American songs about the gulf of Mexico. It's history. I have said it before and I'll say it again, I fucking hate this timeline. This shit is wild. This stuff now days is a mockery of our world.
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Who owns Yandex? Why would they need to pledge fealty to the new king?
I believe its a Russian company
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Because Google is a US company, and not in a position to tell the US government to take a walk, that's why.
Did the US government tell Google to censor Tiannamen Square, or are they a global company that has to observe more than the whims of a single country?
I hope other countries start renaming the US soon.
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I can confirm that it shows up as both for me. I'm not in US or Mexico, and it shows as "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)". The info I saw was that it shows as GoA in the US, GoM in Mexico, and both everywhere else. At least 2 of those are true, I'm guessing all 3 are
Same here in Canada where we are not supposed to be a part of this insanity
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Yes, it sets the official name of each place. That's what everyone here is talking about.
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"
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That would be less inaccurate, lol.
And no. I'll be a pedantic asshole to anyone who pretends that Trump is anything other than one of President Musk's assistants.
i feel your pain and disillusionment but it is what it is. The real "asshole" is changing the world with his Sharpie.
Good luck to you for the next 4 years
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I thought they just did that in the US
It's Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) outside of the USA and just Gulf of Mexico in Mexico. Absolute insanity
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to allow citizens to call things whatever they want.
I very much doubt that privilege extends to a mapmaker
Why wouldn't it? Google's just a company, not an arm of the government. At best, maybe there is some sort of accreditation process to have their maps called "authentic" or "accurate" or whatnot, but I've never heard of any US law that penalizes the publication of an inaccurate map.
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Did the US government tell Google to censor Tiannamen Square, or are they a global company that has to observe more than the whims of a single country?
I hope other countries start renaming the US soon.
Tianamen square shows up just fine on Google maps, who is supposedly censoring them?
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That is essentially what they've done by putting Gulf of America in brackets behind the original name.
But why? Why should any other country care about the US's ridiculous internal politics
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Imagine being a tourist in the US, looking for an address you believe to be say, Martin Luther King Street. Can't find it anywhere, even on Google maps, then eventually you talk to someone and find out it's now called Elon Musk Avenue.
Not saying this is exactly the same, but if we're letting people change the names of places on commonly used global map software willy nilly, even if it's just region to region, we're gonna end up with problems. It's not like "freedom fries" back in the day that legitimately affected no one.
And I am suddenly seeing a parenthetical on the Gulf here outside the US, so there technically was a sudden change
The issue is the US does not own the gulf whereas they own the streets.
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i feel your pain and disillusionment but it is what it is. The real "asshole" is changing the world with his Sharpie.
Good luck to you for the next 4 years
If Trump gets to redefine reality as he sees fit then we do too.
See you on the other side, friendo.
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OK, but how is Google supposed to know what nationality you are?
IP address, same way they decide what language to show the names in
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Restrict Google from doing business.in the country altogether.
Have phones switch to some open non Google platform
Fuck google, microsoft, apple, they're all evil at this point
As a mexican I second this thought
