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Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps.
(www.commondreams.org)
Your issue is with the fed gov, or what is left of it
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2025
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if im not mistaken, i think i heard google pulls the data from some external database, which changed the name. google didnt change shit, rather the database they use did.
i could be wrong, but i could have sworn i read that somewhere.
also seems rather petty to me to sue an american company for following US policy changes.
to be clear, i think the gulf of america thing is stupid as hell, and petty on trump's part.
US policy doesn't get to dictate how websites operate in non US jurisdiction. The US acting like it gets to bully the rest world into doing whatever it wants is the whole issue at hand. That's the point: the trump admin wants to use US influence to intimidate, bully, and antagonize other countries by disrespecting their sovereignty.
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found an article for whoever downvoted me lol.
Gulf of America name change in the U.S. — what you’ll see in Maps
Again, this is one of the dumbest fucking wastes of money I've ever seen. Waste of labor from the top down. Waste of resources. This is purely a pride move. It's the gulf of Mexico and always has been. There are American songs about the gulf of Mexico. It's history. I have said it before and I'll say it again, I fucking hate this timeline. This shit is wild. This stuff now days is a mockery of our world.
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class action please, so we can let our powers combine
Restrict Google from doing business.in the country altogether.
Have phones switch to some open non Google platform
Fuck google, microsoft, apple, they're all evil at this point
I'm curious - how would they just "have phones switch", and if that's actually possible, to which "open non Google platform"?
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As a mexican I second this thought
FUCK YEAH, DO IT DO IT FUCKING DO IT! Please sue the fuck outta those shitfucks!
I thought they just did that in the US
It's Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) outside of the USA and just Gulf of Mexico in Mexico. Absolute insanity
Less threatening... More doing.
The U.S. dictatorship are just doing and they're slowly tearing apart OUR planet.
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