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Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. (for this community, why is Google the defacto authority here?) (www.thecentersquare.com)

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cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/1485960

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote a letter asking Google to reject the U.S. decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on its mapping service.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In what way?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Google in Mexico (and the rest of the world) is showing people "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)"

Edit: Like this (I am not in the US and my nation never went along with this):

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was just repeating what was said in the article.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Yes, and it aged poorly.

Surprise! they lied.