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This move makes zero sense to me. Why, change it? It's not it's official name or international recognized name so wtf
It could be simply because they can do it, peasant
Thayana good point. I need to remember my place in this world 🤣
The USA is now part of a list of "sensitive countries" with authoritarian states with their own version of reality. When users in one of the countries on this list visit Google sites, they see that government's version of reality. This is nothing new. Google does it all the time with disputed territories. It's only news because it's the first time the US has an authoritarian government.
Here's how it looks when visiting from a Mexican device with the language set to Australian English while located in Hungary.
Edit: undoxxed myself lol
...looks pretty much the same on bing maps, except they're so committed that they named it twice...
In Google maps set to Polish while in the UK, it shows
Zatoka Meksykańska (Zatoka Amerykańska)
Which translates to
Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)
Google maps set to Danish in Denmark is the exact same 🤦♂️
Curry favor with the trump admin
And it will undoubtedly pay off for them. This is the first brazenly tech oligarchy-driven administration.
Remember who was at Trump’s inauguration? Musk, obviously, but also:
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Trump, a populist president, is flanked by tech billionaires at his inauguration
Tim Apple isn’t your friend, either. No oligarch is.
I was hoping Apple wouldn’t be there considering Tim is openly gay
And clarence thomas is black.
Openly gay, but secretly a billionaire.
To be clear, they've changed names in line with official government policy before, not just for Trump's admin.
Yeah but that makes too much sense for emotional & reactional people that don't rely on logic
If something as ridiculous currys favor and infkuence with Trump the USA is truly coming to an end.
I'll remind you of freedom fries.
Distraction from:
Edit: That's why trump did it. All tech companies are in his hands now.
I think I heard that Trump did it because he thinks it gets him around some Biden era rule that he can’t reverse that bans oil drilling in parts of the “Gulf of Mexico.” It’s really stupid. Exxon and Chevron have both “acknowledged” the name change.
Oh that makes sense. Like when muskrat tried to get out of Twitter suis because the name changed.
pleasing the power, so they remove any law that protect our privacy against google prying eye