IP address, same way they decide what language to show the names in
Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 months agoOK, but how is Google supposed to know what nationality you are?
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 months ago
That shows where you are, not who you are.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months 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’”.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 months ago
That is essentially what they’ve done by putting Gulf of America in brackets behind the original name.
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
But why? Why should any other country care about the US’s ridiculous internal politics