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Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. (www.commondreams.org)

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The president of Mexico on Thursday expressed hope that Google "reconsiders" its decision to change its online maps to reflect U.S. President Donald Trump's claim that he has the authority to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico.

Shortly after taking office, Trump issued an executive order announcing he was changing the name of the body of water to the Gulf of America.

For U.S. users of Google Maps, the gulf was listed as the Gulf of America as of Thursday. Google, whose CEO attended Trump's inauguration along with other tech moguls, said last month it has "a long-standing practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources."

But Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum warned Thursday that her government "will file a civil suit" against Google if it does not revert back to labeling the international body of water the Gulf of Mexico.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Golf of Portugal While we are at renaming things...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Google also removed the ability to suggest edits to specifically the Gulf.

Guess they knew ahead of time they'd get an influx of requests to change or back.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago

They hadn't removed that ability as of Thursday evening, because I was able to give feed back. My guess is they got a rash of hate messages similar to mine and decided to remove it because of that. I hate them so much right now, but Google is unfortunately the forefront service for my online life. So much I do with Google apps that I really can't get in any one other place.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Republicans are so good at baiting liberals into useless bullshit arguments, while they plunder stuff that actually matters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I mean it's Mexico. I wouldn't really consider them "liberal".

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 hours ago

Dems and useless virtue-signaling. Name a better duo

[–] [email protected] 31 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I want to know how many of the people here defending Google's decision would be okay with Google labeling Taiwan as "Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)" for people in Taiwan and also the rest of the world.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 16 hours ago

I prefer the name "golfo del gringo loco"

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