Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.
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I just do not understand what the big deal is about the name of this fucking thing. I understand trump trying to change it out of nowhere is dumb as fuck, but who cares? why go through the stress? Like just rename it something without a countries name in it. Like the Gulf of Jeff or something. Nobodies butthurt about this shit that don’t matter then.
The leading theory over this seems to be they're trying to invalidate a bunch of international/national agreements about the gulf of Mexico because now "that doesn't exist", or is not about this gulf that has a different name so definitely not the one from agreement. And of course there's also things about doing everything at once and getting people distracted by these while sneaking in harmful policies.
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Why bother with this? If you want to make a point, pass regulation in Mexico to call E.E.U.U. (US in Mexico) be called Northern Mexico. Then Google is forced to comply on that territory like they claim they do for disputed sections when maps are viewed from that region. It would make for some funny reactions from people visiting Cancun or Puerto Vallarta.
TIL…
The abbreviation E.E.U.U. (often written as EE. UU.) stands for Estados Unidos (United States) in Spanish. This abbreviation follows a grammatical rule in Spanish where doubling the initial letters of each word indicates plurality
So you taught me something today I did not know. Thank you!!
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The leading theory over this seems to be they're trying to invalidate a bunch of international/national agreements about the gulf of Mexico because now "that doesn't exist", or is not about this gulf that has a different name so definitely not the one from agreement. And of course there's also things about doing everything at once and getting people distracted by these while sneaking in harmful policies.
I assumed it was the second one, but the first one there also sounds plausible.
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Save your old maps for when this shit has to be reversed in 4 years unless the voters elect another republican troglodyte.
Hey! What did I ever do to you?
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Don’t “threaten”. Any asshole can make a threat. GO AHEAD AND DO IT.
Yes, Mexico. Attack them with your air force.
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Travel to Beijing, open up Google search, and see if it gives you any historically accurate results about what happened there.
I'm serious, it sounds like you could use a lesson in freedom and the world outside your country.
Are you going to chip in for my air fare?
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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.
Are you seriously suggesting nothing whatsoever would happen if Google just didn't update their maps to the new name?
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I stopped using everything Google. Fascist collaborators won't get a dime of my money, won't get my eyeballs on any of their ads, and won't get a single kilobyte of data from me to sell for profit.
I'll keep my gmail account open because all it really does is accumulate spam which probably costs them money.
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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.
But the US isn't the one calling the shots.
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The word "America" is not reserved for the USA alone and belongs to the entire Americas: North America, Central America, South America. As such if they want to rename the Gulf of Mexico then it should be the Gulf of North America of which both the USA and Mexico are a part of and share borders around that body of water.
Furthermore the word "America" isn't an English word but the German bastardization of an Italian word. Specifically the word "America" was coined by Martin Waldseemüller a German cartographer who named the Americas after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci who explored the new continents for Spain and Portugal.
Amerigo Vespucci - History Cartoon ~ Innovative History ~ YouTube.
So if this is the big orange blow-fish's attempt to dis on Mexico then it's pretty petty much like everything he does to massage his massive ego.
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Don't sue- just threaten to block some of googles services in your country and they'll come around real quick. Hit em where it hurts. Google isn't hurting for lawyers.
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I stopped using everything Google. Fascist collaborators won't get a dime of my money, won't get my eyeballs on any of their ads, and won't get a single kilobyte of data from me to sell for profit.
I'll keep my gmail account open because all it really does is accumulate spam which probably costs them money.
So you stopped using an iPhone too? Because Apple also renamed the gulf in their maps app.
Is Symbian still good these days?
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Whenever I see Gulf of America mentioned, in my head it sounds like "This is America" in the Childish Gambino song.
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It is labeled Gulf of Mexico in Mexico and the name doesn't mean they own it. This is almost as ridiculous as calling it Gulf of America in the first place
I'm in tijuana about 10 miles south of the border and it shows as Gulf of America
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The leading theory over this seems to be they're trying to invalidate a bunch of international/national agreements about the gulf of Mexico because now "that doesn't exist", or is not about this gulf that has a different name so definitely not the one from agreement. And of course there's also things about doing everything at once and getting people distracted by these while sneaking in harmful policies.
It's the very first piece of getting their violent base behind imperialism
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The word "America" is not reserved for the USA alone and belongs to the entire Americas: North America, Central America, South America. As such if they want to rename the Gulf of Mexico then it should be the Gulf of North America of which both the USA and Mexico are a part of and share borders around that body of water.
Furthermore the word "America" isn't an English word but the German bastardization of an Italian word. Specifically the word "America" was coined by Martin Waldseemüller a German cartographer who named the Americas after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci who explored the new continents for Spain and Portugal.
Amerigo Vespucci - History Cartoon ~ Innovative History ~ YouTube.
So if this is the big orange blow-fish's attempt to dis on Mexico then it's pretty petty much like everything he does to massage his massive ego.
So it's the gulf of Germany. Got it. Ü
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So you stopped using an iPhone too? Because Apple also renamed the gulf in their maps app.
Is Symbian still good these days?
Haha, seeing you being downvoted for pointing a fact, tell me everything about the people frequenting this sub.
Obviously apple can't be fascist, because Tim Apple is gay!
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So you stopped using an iPhone too? Because Apple also renamed the gulf in their maps app.
Is Symbian still good these days?
I also don't buy Crapple products either, but that's a personal choice.
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Less threatening... More doing.
The U.S. dictatorship are just doing and they're slowly tearing apart OUR planet.
Bro, are you ok? "US dictayorship"? Trump was elected by the majority of Americans. How is Trump destroying YOUR planet? By changing the name of the gulf? Is this the biggest problem "your" planet has?
Fukin soypeople...
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I can see Google (and Apple) quietly paying this fine and changing it for Mexico (and any other jurisdiction that asks).
This is stupid and cowardly of them, but that aside, the implication is 100% “comply, or the US government will make life difficult for Google.” I can see how they’re stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Since when is the big tech the arbiter of truth? It might come as a surprise to you, but Google and Apple don't care about your holy war against Trump.
