Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.

• lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Doesn’t need to (but yeah yeah they’re Google, I know…). They just should name it “Gulf of México” or whatever the translated name is to the user’s device, and add an asterisk somewhere that shows a note to the effect of “a small fraction of Confederate remnants think it should be called ‘Gulf of America’”.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That is essentially what they’ve done by putting Gulf of America in brackets behind the original name.

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    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      But why? Why should any other country care about the US’s ridiculous internal politics

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• JustARaccoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  IP address, same way they decide what language to show the names in

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That shows where you are, not who you are.

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