Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.
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to allow citizens to call things whatever they want.
I very much doubt that privilege extends to a mapmaker
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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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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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Yes, it sets the official name of each place. That's what everyone here is talking about.
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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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I believe its a Russian company
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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.
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Same here in Canada where we are not supposed to be a part of this insanity
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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
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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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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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Tianamen square shows up just fine on Google maps, who is supposedly censoring them?
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But why? Why should any other country care about the US's ridiculous internal politics
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The issue is the US does not own the gulf whereas they own the streets.
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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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IP address, same way they decide what language to show the names in
