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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] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

or we keep american shit inside america. fuck googlemaps, apple and all other shitty US corporations. see, tump will die some day and be forgotten, but people will remember what apple and google did. next time you see someone work for alphabet...spit them in the face. next time an american buys a burger, you spit on it. etc. it is not about actual harm as america is killing itself anyway atm. my bingo card says if trump wins twice, there shall also be two pandemics. maybe protest the egg prices a bit more before using that muri-brain to do sth. against it. americans are just stupid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Just call it the Gulf of Fuck The Environment, We're Getting Rich!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago

Don’t forget apple

[–] PhAzE 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (13 children)

So why did google change it in Canada?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (7 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Don't sue- just threaten to block some of googles services in your country and they'll come around real quick. Hit em where it hurts. Google isn't hurting for lawyers.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You have to hit them in the wallet. Every time Trump does or says anything about tariffs, just starting increasing tariffs on all Tesla products.

We can't hit Trump directly but we can hit his little friends quite easily.

Musk will have an absolute meltdown on twitter of course, but if you just ignore him he'll give up. He's already shown that he is prepared to back down if he's actually facing financial penalties.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (7 children)

I stopped using everything Google. Fascist collaborators won't get a dime of my money, won't get my eyeballs on any of their ads, and won't get a single kilobyte of data from me to sell for profit.

I'll keep my gmail account open because all it really does is accumulate spam which probably costs them money.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Uninstalled 👍

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

PLEASE.DO IT

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Funny thing - I just checked yandex maps (because I'm bored) and it still shows "gulf of mexico" on it.

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