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This is the map of the Gulf of Mexico as seen from outside the US on Google Maps.
Google said it would foist the Gulf of America idiocy only on its US users, but apparently the temptation to flatter His Orangeness was too much, so the rest of the world gets to enjoy it too.
I figured I'd rename it too. I mean why not after all: it seems any idiot can make up geography now.
It gets people online worked up and distracts them from the real problems, that’s how
Sundar PIchai was front and center at the inauguration. Right next to Musk himself.
Gulf of just put a text box here, so that everyone can enter their prefered name
There are so fucking many way more important things to be upset about right now.
If you couldn't tell this isn't a political war, it's a class war. We need to stand up to these mega corporations because their billionaire CEOs are the root cause of this issue and we're all happily donating money to them by letting them use our data for free.
Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon... They are all actively involved in every other "important thing" you could mention.
The problem here is that, if only renamed for American people, one might have a hard time conversing with Americans who (stupidly) use the other name.
So I don't really care for that name to be visible too. As long as it has the true name, and makes sure the Trump name is between brackets.
Trump is gaming you guys again is what’s happening. Of all the shit he’s pulled this month, this Google name change seems to be what’s getting people worked up and posting? That in itself is sad, but the point is he’s distracting you guys with this gulf name shit
Believe it or not, it's possible to be worked up by more than one thing.
Google going along with this stupid thing is a symptom of something far graver than the name of a body of water: it's a manifestation of extreme sycophancy with an unacceptable president in the name of business favors.
Google complying with local laws isn't anything new. They've been complying with China's social media and search filtering for decades now, this isn't new behavior for them.
This is a nonsense distraction. Arguing that 'people can get worked up by more than one thing' doesn't fit with the current media strategy of 'flooding the zone'. People only have so much attention to give and by creating all of these pointless distraction, the people in charge keep people from being able to agree for focus on key issues.
Google complying with local laws isn’t anything new.
If they want to warp reality because Trump ordered it so in the US, to be consistent with what they do elsewhere, fair enough. My point is, they don't need to spread this nonsense to the rest of the world. Nobody else but Trump and his suckups is going with the Gulf of America. Why push this US-centric BS outside of the US?
My point is, they don’t need to spread this nonsense to the rest of the world.
It isn't spread to the rest of the world. I'm in Spain and my Google Maps says Gulf of Mexico.
If you're seeing Gulf of America then you're either in the US or Google thinks that you're in the US.
Google customizes their service based on the local country's laws, this isn't a global change... just a US change.
It's not a distraction, it's the one thing these assholes actually believe in; Power.
Now is a better time than ever to stop relying on US-based companies if they're so beholden to fascists. Any suggestions for alternative map/gps services?
Organic maps / and openStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is the "Wikipedia of maps", which provides free user-created map data. There are many navigation apps which use OSM data. Organic Maps is one that is often recommended.
It's erasing history too since a lot of the coast of the gulf was Mexican land which is why it's named what it is.
Mexico is still part of North America. So Gulf of America is a better, more inclusive name.
Wait.. Inclusion is one-third of DEI. WE CAN'T HAVE THAT! We need to change it back!
Get the democrats out applauding this decision and it’ll be changed in no time
The "erasing history" part is on purpose
They've always done that for other contested regions of the world (e.g. sea of Japan/Korea, West Bank/Judea and Samaria, East Turkestan/Xinjiang). They don't want to rile up potential ~~personal gps data cash cows~~ satisfied users.
Yeah. It isn't like they are just reflecting Trump's personal views, the Trump administration officially renamed the Gulf of Mexico legally.
The thing is like 90% in international waters, who cares if a government renames it the gulf of the the clown car for instance? I hope there's an international body of geograph somewhere that brings reason to these matters.
I hope there's an international body of geograph somewhere that brings reason to these matters.
There isn't.
After getting the permission to name the Gulf of Mexico "Gulf of America", like for a football stadion, the name can be sold to the highest bidder, to be named, e.g. Gulf of Pepsi Co, Gulf of Exxon,...
This money surely will be used to decrease the egg price. /s
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Alternatively: just Gulf
Gulf of Gulf
I saw this and deleted my google apps and started the steps to move delete my Gmail account too. Privacy and sanity are king
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