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Summary
Google Maps has blocked reviews for the Gulf of Mexico after backlash over renaming it “Gulf of America” for U.S. users, following a Trump executive order.
Critics accused Google of censorship after it removed negative reviews. Google defended the move, citing policies against off-topic content.
Mexico’s President Sheinbaum opposed the change and may take legal action. Apple Maps also adopted the new name.
The controversy adds to concerns over tech companies aligning with Trump, following Meta’s rollback of fact-checking and diversity initiatives.
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When do we start burning data centers to the ground?
Good luck with that. The Data centers I have been on have more security than many military bases I’ve been on.
Just do what they did on that episode of Mr. Robot. Raspberry Pi hack to the HVAC system.
Oh I didn’t know Apple is also a fuckboi.
Surprisingly it didn’t make the news like when Google did it, how come? Especially with how big apple is in USA.
Apple updated it a few days after Google so there was more focus on Google. So far Apple allows you to report an issue which I suspect will be removed next week.
Google Maps is by far the most popular map app which is why it’s more newsworthy.
More evidence that Corporations are psychopaths in pathological pursuit of profit, just as Joel Bakan wrote.
I mean just watch that video of Eric Schmidt of Google that came out last year. It’s pretty shocking how bold they are in their willingness to break laws and social norms for money.
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Can they make Google list Canada as a state along with Greenland, then we won’t have to invade???
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/14/google-maps-political-borders/
This is not new. Google will show citizens of a country whatever that country’s leadership wants them to see. Usually it’s related to disputed territory from wars, but has also included whiny bullshit like this.
This is new though. The difference is, it’s not being limited to citizens of one country. It’s being shown globally, regardless of location.
This is from the EU.
It’s not new, they’ve done that for other places where the name has changed. Like “Myanmar (Burma)”.
But that’s a more complicated situation. This is just ridiculous internal US politics. It’s firmly incorrect to even mention GuA outside of the USA
Would you want the USA name on maps across the world changed if some country like Belgium or Canada legally renamed it to Trumpistan?
This is just ridiculous internal US politics.
That’s all any of this is. Look at all the disputed names and you’re going to hit your daily quota on “stupid conflicts” real fast.
Would you want the USA name on maps across the world changed if some country like Belgium or Canada legally renamed it to Trumpistan?
“Sea of Japan” shows with “(East Sea)” under it right now. So it probably would?
I gave it a 5 star rating and left this as my review.
“Regardless of what a Racist, Fascist, Fear-mongering, Election rigging POS would have you believe; it’s the Gulf of Mexico.”
Anyone else remembering the good old “do no evil” times from Google, where it actually was and enrichment for humanity?
And here we are today.
Fuck large companies, open source software is the only way forward
Always has been.
If anybody actually read the text of the executive order, they would immediately see that, unlike Trump & co. claim, it actually does not rename the Gulf of Mexico:
rename as the ‘‘Gulf of America’’ the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico
This “renames” as “Gulf of America” the part of Gulf of Mexico in US territorial waters. (Though how you can “rename” something which never had a specific name is unclear to me.) In other words, it is simply incorrect to label the entire gulf as Gulf of America even according to the text of the executive order. Instead, Gulf of America should be a sub-area in the northern part of the Gulf of Mexico.
But they know no one will read the fine print. They’ll get the news coverage they want out of it.
I guess it’s time to give Google campuses 1 Star reviews?
Always remember: Fascism is a feature of capitalism. In desperate times capitalism pushes facism.
Also capitalists are always gone be happy to work with fascists, because it gives them more power and money.
Fascism is a feature of being human.
Self-described communists can also fall very easy into fascism; remember the Soviets were friendly with the Nazis while they both launched imperial expansionist campaigns across Eastern Europe and split Poland between each other. Hitler and Stalin found common ground in being “anti- Western capitalism”. Some historians call the USSR the “red fascists”.
I think real, global communism will be the solution to fascism. It will require the overthrow of all capitalist systems.
Ah yes censoring your detractors, the go-to move of someone who is confident that they’re in the right
This is pretty much the best case scenario I was expecting. Glad I had a hand in pestering them.
You can still post photos with comments, fyi
One could still report other stuff around it and mention the gulf…
Yes, I was thinking of reviewing cities all around the Gulf next to annoy them ;)
I suggested changing the name of Mar a Lago to Turd-o-Lardo
You could also do something meaningful with your time instead.
