Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.
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Reporting about how the maps team reclassified the US as a "sensitive country", a la: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/google-reclassifies-us-as-sensitive-country-like-china-russia-.html
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He wants to seize Greenland, Panama and Canada because they are either strategically important or have valuable resources, or both. This name change though is just because he hates Mexicans.
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Yes, and Congress delegated that authority in 1947 via Public Law 242, creating the US Board on Geographic Names, under the Secretary of the Interior, part of the executive branch. The President has the authority to direct the Secretary.
You can speak as confidently as you like, but you're still wrong. Feel free to learn: https://www.usgs.gov/us-board-on-geographic-names
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Homie, I was never hiding it.
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You really weren't.
You should learn to hide your power level, lol~
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Less threatening... More doing.
The U.S. dictatorship are just doing and they're slowly tearing apart OUR planet.
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Apply only the part of the name change that’s actually covered by US jurisdiction.
Strictly speaking, per the EO, this is what they should have done. The EO defines the area to be renamed as:
the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico
You can see exactly where that seaward boundary is on this map: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_ECS_Regions_2023.png
The area described is less than half the whole Gulf of Mexico.
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I'm just the messenger, kid. I'm not even in the USA, I'm in a different hemisphere watching with popcorn.
Good luck over there 🫡
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Did you not read the page you linked?
That org was "established in its present form by Public Law in 1947 to maintain uniform geographic name usage throughout the Federal Government."
It's a standards-setting org that adjudicates between other agencies of the government when there is disagreement between them about a place name, it isn't entitled to rename things everyone was already in agreement about, lol~
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I thought they just did that in the US
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I mean, they are to an extent. The laws of the US are ostensibly supposed to allow citizens to call things whatever they want. If the government wants to throw a hissy fit and say the constitution is meaningless after all, let them do it. At least then we could give up all of the pretense that they are supposed to care about what it says.
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FUCK YEAH, DO IT DO IT FUCKING DO IT! Please sue the fuck outta those shitfucks!
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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.
