Step two of the plan you outlined was inverted, but the effect is the same: IIRC it only shows up that way for US users.
Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I can see Google (and Apple) quietly paying this fine and changing it for Mexico (and any other jurisdiction that asks).
This is stupid and cowardly of them, but that aside, the implication is 100% “comply, or the US government will make life difficult for Google.” I can see how they’re stuck between a rock and a hard place.
ggppjj@lemmy.world 2 months ago
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
IIRC it only shows up that way for US users.
apparently that was either a lie or incomplete info
Where’d you first hear this?
MrBobDobalina@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
I can confirm that it shows up as both for me. I’m not in US or Mexico, and it shows as “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)”. The info I saw was that it shows as GoA in the US, GoM in Mexico, and both everywhere else. At least 2 of those are true, I’m guessing all 3 are
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Same here in Canada where we are not supposed to be a part of this insanity
ggppjj@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reporting about how the maps team reclassified the US as a “sensitive country”, a la: cnbc.com/…/google-reclassifies-us-as-sensitive-co…
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 months ago
This is stupid and cowardly of them,
What else did you expect?
RxBrad@infosec.pub 2 months ago
I legitimately don’t understand why the U.S. isn’t the only locality where it shows up as “Gulf of America”.
Set the en-US string to “Gulf of America”. Leave literally every other region’s text string untouched from what it was 6 months ago.
When the next Democrat U.S. President gets sworn in and immediately Executive Orders it back to “Gulf of Mexico”, change the en-US string back to that.
This is all so stupid and melodramatic.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is all so stupid and melodramatic.
That’s the point!
cotlovan@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Since when is the big tech the arbiter of truth? It might come as a surprise to you, but Google and Apple don’t care about your holy war against Trump.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You think Google and Apple should call it the Gulf of America?
cotlovan@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I think Google and Apple should call it whatever the official names are, not to take any sort of political stance.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Then why add “Gulf of America” in countries that do not recognize the name?
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The official name is the Gulf of Mexico. It doesn’t become a different name just because Trump declares it. It isn’t up to him.
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 2 months ago
The new name shows only for USA. In Mexico it’s unchanged, or shown with both names.
Our president is dumb and just wants to look like she’s fighting back.
Kalysta@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s showing up worldwide. Its why Mexico is threatening to sue.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Showing with both names does not make it any better and I’m not sure why you think it does. They’re just kowtowing to a unilateral decision made by one of the multiple countries that border the Gulf of Mexico.
I assume you would not want Taiwan to be called Chinese Taipei on Google Maps.
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Woah, who said I’m fine with that? I’m Mexican and very much resent the idiocy of Trump, but our president is also an idiot who “threatens” to do something, but can assure you she will not actually do anything.
IMO she’s posturing to her base, but she says she might go against Google because she doesn’t dare to go against Trump, and she needs to look like she’s doing something.
Meanwhile, we have very urgent problems in Mexico like rampant crime, medicine scarcity, corruption, etc. that she doesn’t even mention in her daily morning speeches.
Draces@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It already does
Arbiter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nah, they’re willing collaborators.