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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Well as they promised Google Maps has finally fallen. It now shows "Gulf of America" and nothing else to US users. I suspect someone outside the US will be shown both the real name and Gulf of America. Denali is still labeled as Denali... for now.

Disorganize the world's information and make it universally inaccessible and stupid.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

Wingnuts genuinely think corporations having a rainbow colored version of their logo on social media in June is proof they're being controlled by a cabal of woke soy sjw leftists.

Meanwhile corporations the second Donald Trump is in the office again:

Gif of a man dressed as Adolf Hitler saying "I am Adolf Hitler"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Shows up as "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" for me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Well that's the stupidest most pathetic way they could have done it, bravo.

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

Shows up like that in the local (non-US) version here too.

And this would have been such an easy way for Google to show a little bit of (at least symbolic) resistance to everything going on...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Same here. Fucking bootlickers.

Screenshot of Google Maps in Finnish. Gulf of Mexico is labeled "Meksikonlahti (Amerikanlahti)"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago