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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 17 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Can someone explain the 4D chess going on here? AFAIK this was just tweet diplomacy, the US hasn't passed anything about this. So why would google want to handle all the complaints and backlash they'll take for this?

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 16 points 17 hours ago

I think something official was actually signed in the last few days. Dumbest timeline.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 17 hours ago

So why would google want to handle all the complaints and backlash they’ll take for this?

Because it's worth getting on trump's "good side", per Ajit Pai's reasoning

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[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 60 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (7 children)

Even in the UK they have put Gulf of America.

The UK Government doesn't recognize that name and have officially stated they wont (at least in the short term)

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[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 29 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Yes, Tim Apple bent the knee, but the company seems to be holding steadfast.

Apple Maps

Edit God dammit, they changed it. Cowards.

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Wake up people, it's always been the Gulf of America. /s

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I'm trying to, but Proton made me throw up in my mouth a little.

Now I have the option to do everything I was doing, but poorly AND spread across 3 vendors.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 7 points 16 hours ago (11 children)

What's wrong with proton? It works pretty well for me.

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[–] SeekPie@lemm.ee 71 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] Aetherion@lemmy.world 20 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Organic Maps is really cool :-)

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[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 26 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

In Taiwan it says:

Gulf of Mexico(Gulf of America)

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[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

To be fair:

I'm American and my phone is set up in the US with region being the US.

[–] FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee 15 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

For me it's extra strange. If I zoom out, I see "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)". However when I zoom in it changes to just "Guild of America".

I'm American also in the US.

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[–] kimagurevenus@beehaw.org 2 points 12 hours ago

Degoogled already! Installed /e/os on my Pixel 6a! A little irritated though as it seems like literally every app I've used is tied to Google!!

[–] hulfpa@lemmy.ml 126 points 1 day ago (14 children)

This move makes zero sense to me. Why, change it? It's not it's official name or international recognized name so wtf

[–] objject_not_found@lemm.ee 1 points 11 hours ago

I also find the word "America" too latino. wouldn't it be better to change it with an English word?

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 61 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

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.

1000019054

Edit: undoxxed myself lol

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[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 99 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Curry favor with the trump admin

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[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 92 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (11 children)

It's even weirder because America doesn't mean just the United States

Geographically, America is too ambiguous of a name for the Gulf of Mexico

Wouldn't the Gulf of California also qualify as being the Gulf of America?

The Caribbean Sea?

Basically every river system from the Mississippi and and the Amazon are also "American" from northernmost point of North America to the southernmost point of South America, it's all "America"

Naming the Gulf of Mexico "America" is almost as bad as naming a country "earth"

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[–] jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml 55 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Planet America, orbiting the American sun, in the galaxy called America

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