Google says it will change Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' in Maps after government updates

[cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Google; we're still calling it Twitter you think we're gonna start calling it Gulf of America just because a doofus says so?

[duamerthrax@lemmy.world]

I'll keep an eye out for a firefox plugin to change it back.

[phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee]

Why would google, a company of such unfathomable power and reach, be fearful of Trump? They can say no and it won't affect their bottomline much.

[captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works]

Fearful, or in agreement with?

[eezyville@sh.itjust.works]

Google, or rather Alphabet, is an American company. Trump is the president of America, the most powerful country militarily and economically. Alphabet is also subject to American laws and is currently under an anti-trust lawsuit with America. What makes you think Google can stand up against the US?

[phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee]

The only thing they care about is money. If their bottomline doesn't benefit, they don't do.

Unless the CEOs are worried they'll have a Trump supporter shoot them dead and then be immediately pardoned and released by Trump.

[spookex@lemmy.world]

I mean if Turkey can just decide to change it's name and everyone has to respect it (not me Turkey it is), I don't see why this is different

[redhorsejacket@lemmy.world]

Yes. The United States Board on Geographic Names is the group within the Department of the Interior which handles these matters. They are a part of the executive branch. I suspect that you can follow a chain of delegated authorities through that board, up the civil service hierarchy, landing on the desk of the President.

This is an example of the system not accounting for, or being ambivalent about, the election of someone to that office with a fascist ideology.

[toxicwaste@lemm.ee]

fair enough. i guess the usa never did a great job ar limiting their presidents power. that way he can extend his reach way further down, than he should...

[atomdmac@lemmy.world]

The Left: its called an Allow List now, you racists!
The Right: its called the Gulf of America, you commies!

Jesus, we're pathetic.

[echodot@feddit.uk]

I'm trying to work out who this is for. Presumably his fan club will approve, but I don't think it was something that even they were particularly asking for.

[echodot@feddit.uk]

Nobody calls it that though. No one who is actually left-wing thought that calling them blacklist / white list was offensive.

[echodot@feddit.uk]

They're not required to change it. All the law does is officially change the name for official government purposes it doesn't require everyone in the US to start calling it that.

[echodot@feddit.uk]

Yes but thry changed their own name, not the name of some other bit of the world that isn't anything to do with them.

[echodot@feddit.uk]

If only does it with his remaining term is just randomly rename stuff, I think we will consider ourselves to have gotten off lightly.

[nutsack@lemmy.world]

why would that be Google's concern

[echodot@feddit.uk]

There is absolutely nothing that is too stupid for republicans.

It's the US had an actually functional political system they wouldn't get anywhere near power. They're all crazy and they don't care about anything that actually matters to people. But because there's only two parties they just go "biden bad" and everyone votes for them.

[smilingsolaris@lemmy.world]

One is propaganda made up by right wing nerds and one is the president of fucking america if you didnt catch how silly you were being right now

[andros_rex@lemmy.world]

Is this another of those things where someone wrote some mild Substack post about “maybe the phrase black list does imply black = bad” that maybe five people read before conservatives decided that it represents the ideological position of all leftists?

[andros_rex@lemmy.world]

Middle English usage of Turkye or Turkeye is found in The Book of the Duchess (written in 1369–1372) to refer to Anatolia or the Ottoman Empire.[45] The modern spelling Turkey dates back to at least 1719.[46] The bird called turkey was named as such due to trade of guineafowl from Turkey to England.[36] The name Turkey has been used in international treaties referring to the Ottoman Empire.[47] With the Treaty of Alexandropol, the name Türkiye entered international documents for the first time. In the treaty signed with Afghanistan in 1921, the expression Devlet-i Âliyye-i Türkiyye ("Sublime Turkish State") was used, likened to the Ottoman Empire's name.

Türkiye had historical usage and precedent; “the Gulf of America” does not. Admittedly, Erdoğa was probably motivated by the same base nativist urges. There’s also something substantially different in saying “we want our nation to be called this” versus “we want to rename international territory.”