Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.
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Google is evil.
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East? It's east of Alaska...
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found an article for whoever downvoted me lol.
Gulf of America name change in the U.S. — what you’ll see in Maps
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They did change that line from "do no evil" to "do any profitable amount of evil", so this is fair play.
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Kim Jung Un you mean?
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I hope that along with the next president's EO (assuming we don't have a dictator) to change the name back, it also changes the name of a tiny garbage parcel of land that's uninhabitable due to lead or an old chemical spill to something like "greasy orange fief".
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US policy doesn't get to dictate how websites operate in non US jurisdiction. The US acting like it gets to bully the rest world into doing whatever it wants is the whole issue at hand. That's the point: the trump admin wants to use US influence to intimidate, bully, and antagonize other countries by disrespecting their sovereignty.
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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.
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I'm curious - how would they just "have phones switch", and if that's actually possible, to which "open non Google platform"?
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Your issue is with the fed gov, or what is left of it
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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.
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Some android phones can run graphene OS, which is a privacy fork of android if I understand it correctly. Regulation to open bootloaders from manufacturers wanting to sell in the Mexican market would probably be possible. Might be the only good thing to come out of this if countries start regulating openness.
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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.
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US policy doesn’t get to dictate how websites operate in non US jurisdiction
It shows gulf of Mexico outside of the US
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It already does
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yes, i agree. but look at the link i posted. they still show it as gulf of mexico if you're in mexico accessing maps.
my point is more that the US has changed the name of the gulf in america. it is very stupid and meaningless, but it is still officially renamed.
if i look at japan in google maps it says japan, not nipon. why? because that's what we call it here. i personally think thats dumb too. we should call countries things by their real names. deutschland, bharat, suomi, etc
nevertheless the gulf is called the gulf of america here, no matter how dumb that is.
i seriously doubt google, who is under active investigation for monopoly and being threatened to be broken up, AND, recently lifted its ban on using its ai in weapons, is interested in keeping the old name of the gulf in protest against trump.
again, i think this entire situation is stupid, and would prefer everyone call it the gulf of mexico, but i also don't think google specifically is doing anything wrong here.
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Semisopochnoi Island in Alaska with gps coordinates 51°57′42″N 179°46′23″E – easternmost point in all U.S. territory by longitude.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-easternmost-point-in-north-america-is-actually-west-of-alaska.html -
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