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Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.

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  • P [email protected]

    Right? Honestly there are plenty of geographical features that are named differently between different languages and countries. It really doesn't affect anybody except people in the US.

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    you both are stupid. "let the bully do it".

    how about Fuck the USA? much sexier.

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      Ive been already boycotting google, amazon, facebook, reddit. Yall need to get on it

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      it really sucks when you realise that virtually everything is a US company... and yet everything they sell is made in fucking China

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      • dozzi92@lemmy.worldD [email protected]

        Google is worth more than Mexico. A frivolous lawsuit, which is what this would be, will hurt Mexico more.

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        have we (the human race) ever been to this point before? where corporations are big enough to absorb whole countries and there's pretty much nobody who'll stand up to them?

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          or we keep american shit inside america.
          fuck googlemaps, apple and all other shitty US corporations.
          see, tump will die some day and be forgotten, but people will remember what apple and google did.
          next time you see someone work for alphabet...spit them in the face. next time an american buys a burger, you spit on it. etc.
          it is not about actual harm as america is killing itself anyway atm. my bingo card says if trump wins twice, there shall also be two pandemics. maybe protest the egg prices a bit more before using that muri-brain to do sth. against it. americans are just stupid.

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          his name is now tump

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          • flyingsquid@lemmy.worldF [email protected]

            I like edamame and fried tofu. Does that make me one too?

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            Soybois unite!

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              his name is now tump

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              Tumpthumbing

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              • flyingsquid@lemmy.worldF [email protected]

                It's not about harm. It's about kissing Trump's ass on something he doesn't actually get to decide to stay on his good side.

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                I'm not suggesting she should kiss ass, far be it from me. But I still don't see a good motive for this move. A civil suit is not going to get her anything, she's just highlighting Trumps symbolic bullshit even more.

                And then when the suit either goes against her or goes for her but results in laughibly low compensation because the measureable harm is not significant, then it will look like a confirmation of the power of the convict in chief.

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                • flyingsquid@lemmy.worldF [email protected]

                  He was into a girl, but you beat her over the head with a club and dragged her back to your cave by her hair before he could make the first move (and beat her over he head with a club and drag her back to his cave by her hair).

                  You trog-blocked him, dude.

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                  Oops. My bad

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                  • K [email protected]

                    I'm not suggesting she should kiss ass, far be it from me. But I still don't see a good motive for this move. A civil suit is not going to get her anything, she's just highlighting Trumps symbolic bullshit even more.

                    And then when the suit either goes against her or goes for her but results in laughibly low compensation because the measureable harm is not significant, then it will look like a confirmation of the power of the convict in chief.

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                    I was talking about Google kissing Trump's ass. Which is why this is happening.

                    It takes an act of congress to rename a domestic post office. Google has taken his executive order and decided it's true for everyone, at least parenthetically.

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                      you both are stupid. "let the bully do it".

                      how about Fuck the USA? much sexier.

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                      Sorry, that isn't what I was trying to say. It's not about "letting the bully do it" (which isn't what i said at all, so i dont know why you put it in quotation marks)

                      It's just a name. It's nothing. Better to fight him on denying trans people, or taking away rights from women, or reversing climate change deals, or letting a lizard faced man child dismantle the federal governement, or promoting racism, and nazi-ism.

                      The name of a fucking body of water means absolutely nothing compared to some of the shit he is pulling.

                      I dont think being concerned with the name of the gulf matters at all compared to this.

                      Did you see recently the thing about plastic straws? That he wants to bring back plastic straws? This is the kind of thing he wants to change! Trump is a complete moron and he is causing a crazy amount of damage to the US and the rest of the world. But you want to fight him over changing the name of some water?

                      No! i will not accept my downvotes, i stand by what i said. Its not important, you are directing your anger at the wrong target.

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                        Sorry, that isn't what I was trying to say. It's not about "letting the bully do it" (which isn't what i said at all, so i dont know why you put it in quotation marks)

                        It's just a name. It's nothing. Better to fight him on denying trans people, or taking away rights from women, or reversing climate change deals, or letting a lizard faced man child dismantle the federal governement, or promoting racism, and nazi-ism.

                        The name of a fucking body of water means absolutely nothing compared to some of the shit he is pulling.

                        I dont think being concerned with the name of the gulf matters at all compared to this.

                        Did you see recently the thing about plastic straws? That he wants to bring back plastic straws? This is the kind of thing he wants to change! Trump is a complete moron and he is causing a crazy amount of damage to the US and the rest of the world. But you want to fight him over changing the name of some water?

                        No! i will not accept my downvotes, i stand by what i said. Its not important, you are directing your anger at the wrong target.

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                        just added maps.google.com to pihole blacklist

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                        • flyingsquid@lemmy.worldF [email protected]

                          China calls Taiwan "Chinese Taipei." Should Google Maps show "Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)" on maps? Because I don't see how that would be China's call any more than the name of the Gulf would be Trump's call.

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                          Is there Google maps in China? If there is, I'd be surprised if it didn't say that. That is claiming ownership. Countries can't own a gulf beyond the domestic waters convention. But, I don't know, that's a good question because a regular Chinese person would just be confused. It wouldn't effect any policy change

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                            Is there Google maps in China? If there is, I'd be surprised if it didn't say that. That is claiming ownership. Countries can't own a gulf beyond the domestic waters convention. But, I don't know, that's a good question because a regular Chinese person would just be confused. It wouldn't effect any policy change

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                            I did not say in China. Google Maps says "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" in most of the world. It sure is here in Britain.

                            Also, calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America is a clear claim of ownership.

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                              just added maps.google.com to pihole blacklist

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                              I wish i could add childishness to my pihole blacklist.

                              Seriously, think about what you are angry about here. Is this what matters to you?

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                                Well, the continent was named America, not the US continent. So the name Gulf of America just sounds right.

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                                • flyingsquid@lemmy.worldF [email protected]

                                  I did not say in China. Google Maps says "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" in most of the world. It sure is here in Britain.

                                  Also, calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America is a clear claim of ownership.

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                                  Mexico didn't own it before any more than the US owns it now. I don't like the nationalistic intentions, but I can rationalize it to myself that Mexico is also part of [North] America

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                                    Mexico didn't own it before any more than the US owns it now. I don't like the nationalistic intentions, but I can rationalize it to myself that Mexico is also part of [North] America

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                                    No shit they didn't. And they never have. Because it was called the Gulf of Mexico before Mexico as a nation existed. It was called that because it was named after the Valley of Mexico, which was part of New Spain.. Mexico as a country didn't exist until centuries later.

                                    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_Mexico

                                    Maybe actually read the history of this before deciding this is about anyone other than Trump claiming ownership of that gulf.

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                                      Well, the continent was named America, not the US continent. So the name Gulf of America just sounds right.

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                                      I thought it was called North America?

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                                      • R [email protected]

                                        My point is the names are different in different places. At some point, people named things from their perspective irregardless of what others, including those living adjacent to the thing cal it

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                                        No one can own the Gulf anyway. Trump just wanted to stir shit up and people like you getting all bent out of shape are just playing into it. It's just a name

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                                        • flyingsquid@lemmy.worldF [email protected]

                                          No shit they didn't. And they never have. Because it was called the Gulf of Mexico before Mexico as a nation existed. It was called that because it was named after the Valley of Mexico, which was part of New Spain.. Mexico as a country didn't exist until centuries later.

                                          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_of_Mexico

                                          Maybe actually read the history of this before deciding this is about anyone other than Trump claiming ownership of that gulf.

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                                          No one can own the Gulf anyway. Trump just wanted to stir shit up and people like you getting all bent out of shape are just playing into it. It's just a name

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