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

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Mexican courts? Good luck getting an American company to comply.

Why not? Brazilian courts ordered Twitter to ban some people, Twitter refused, court treated to jail Brazilian Twitter legal representatives, Twitter closed their Brazilian office to shield itself from Brazilian courts, Brazilian courts ordered ISPs to block Twitter because they had no legal representatives on the country, after a couple of weeks without Brazilian access Twitter bow down, rehired their legal representatives and complied with Brazilian court orders.

Don’t see why Mexican courts couldn’t do the same with Google Maps.

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IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
By “comply”, I mean like getting them to revert the map rename. Kicking them out and blocking them isn’t really getting them to “comply”

By contrast, if the US government wanted Google to do something, they could storm their headquarters and get the government tech people to go in the servers and change it.

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- Dragonstaff@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  if the US government wanted Google to do something, they could storm their headquarters and get the government tech people to go in the servers and change it.
  
  Bwahahahahahahainhalehahahahahahaa
  
  Thanks, I needed that. Whatever movies you’re watching are terrible.
  
  Forcing your way into Google to have “government techs” change something is NCIS level ridiculous. Conceivably they might get a court order to “force” Google to change. Funnily enough, the US and Mexico have the exact same levers to make a company do what they want. The US has more power to push those levers though.
  
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  - phlegmy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    We’ll see who’s laughing after the government breaks through all of Google’s firewalls and hacks their mainframe!
    They’re gonna need a lot of cyber-tape if they want any chance of stopping all the data from spilling through their firewalls.
    And who knows how google would handle a cyber-nuke.
    
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    aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Don’t forget two people typing on one keyboard
    
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- funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Mexico is a big country, Google has shareholders who demand line goes up, people use maps to advertise (“map pack” “local SEO” and brand tie-ins)…
  
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  - Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    yeah, we’d start using their spineless nature for good tbh
    
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