Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.
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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
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IP address, same way they decide what language to show the names in
That shows where you are, not who you are.
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I believe its a Russian company
Right, so why would they?
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This is accurate. Here's a screenshot from my friend in France.
I'm a mexican in mexico, my phone's in japanese and it still shows as gulf of mexico
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if im not mistaken, i think i heard google pulls the data from some external database, which changed the name. google didnt change shit, rather the database they use did.
i could be wrong, but i could have sworn i read that somewhere.
also seems rather petty to me to sue an american company for following US policy changes.
to be clear, i think the gulf of america thing is stupid as hell, and petty on trump's part.
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The issue is the US does not own the gulf whereas they own the streets.
True. Guess it's more like them getting Google to change Greenland into West Alaska
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I'm a mexican in mexico, my phone's in japanese and it still shows as gulf of mexico
Ha. I speak Spanish and Japanese. My girlfriend lives in Jilatopec. Sheinbaum está furiosa con Trump y me encanta.
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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.
Google is evil.
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True. Guess it's more like them getting Google to change Greenland into West Alaska
East? It's east of Alaska...
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if im not mistaken, i think i heard google pulls the data from some external database, which changed the name. google didnt change shit, rather the database they use did.
i could be wrong, but i could have sworn i read that somewhere.
also seems rather petty to me to sue an american company for following US policy changes.
to be clear, i think the gulf of america thing is stupid as hell, and petty on trump's part.
found an article for whoever downvoted me lol.
Gulf of America name change in the U.S. — what you’ll see in Maps
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Google is evil.
They did change that line from "do no evil" to "do any profitable amount of evil", so this is fair play.
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He's the part of the government that has the power to unilaterally change the name of a location.
Kim Jung Un you mean?
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If there existed any valid reasoning for the change...
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But the Felon Dicktater is only doing it so he can claim himself architect of global geographic change. Same reason he wants Greenland, Panama, Gaza, etc.
Fuck that.
I back Sheinbaum on this one. Won't matter, but do it anyway.I hope that along with the next president's EO (assuming we don't have a dictator) to change the name back, it also changes the name of a tiny garbage parcel of land that's uninhabitable due to lead or an old chemical spill to something like "greasy orange fief".
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if im not mistaken, i think i heard google pulls the data from some external database, which changed the name. google didnt change shit, rather the database they use did.
i could be wrong, but i could have sworn i read that somewhere.
also seems rather petty to me to sue an american company for following US policy changes.
to be clear, i think the gulf of america thing is stupid as hell, and petty on trump's part.
US policy doesn't get to dictate how websites operate in non US jurisdiction. The US acting like it gets to bully the rest world into doing whatever it wants is the whole issue at hand. That's the point: the trump admin wants to use US influence to intimidate, bully, and antagonize other countries by disrespecting their sovereignty.
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Right, so why would they?
Putin and Trump are best friends so you might expect Russia to follow. But perhaps Putin wants to show he's the dominant one in said relationship.
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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
I'm curious - how would they just "have phones switch", and if that's actually possible, to which "open non Google platform"?
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Your issue is with the fed gov, or what is left of it
