The president of Mexico on Thursday expressed hope that Google “reconsiders” its decision to change its online maps to reflect U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that he has the authority to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico.
Shortly after taking office, Trump issued an executive order announcing he was changing the name of the body of water to the Gulf of America.
For U.S. users of Google Maps, the gulf was listed as the Gulf of America as of Thursday. Google, whose CEO attended Trump’s inauguration along with other tech moguls, said last month it has “a long-standing practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.”
But Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum warned Thursday that her government “will file a civil suit” against Google if it does not revert back to labeling the international body of water the Gulf of Mexico.
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.
Look we’re wasting our hard earned tax payer money on crazy fraudulent things like science, education, weather, feeding children, helping the poor, medicine… Dumb things like that. And you’re gonna tell me that changing the name of a body of water to include the greatest God damn country in America is a waste? Next thing you know you’re gonna stand there and tell me that poor people should be able to afford a hospital visit.
Republicans are full of it anyway.
Study after study has shown that a nationalized healthcare system increases a nation’s GDP in the long run. After all, people who are unable to work due to sickness or death that were caused by preventable condition, don’t pay taxes.
For everyone else, not having to pay for private health care gives them more disposable income. Which means they spend it on other things which makes businesses more profitable.
Your issue is with the fed gov, or what is left of it
It is labeled Gulf of Mexico in Mexico and the name doesn’t mean they own it. This is almost as ridiculous as calling it Gulf of America in the first place
This is what I see in England. Why should I have to see what Trump thinks the Gulf’s name is when it wasn’t renamed here?
Because it’s relevant to the region you’re looking at and I’m pretty sure the UK hasn’t taken a firm/legal stance either way. Also not sure how your comment is supposed to relate to my point? Mexico doesn’t have any more right to tell other countries what to call the Gulf than the US or any other country that’s totally outside of any sane jurisdiction
There is an international maritime treaty that has taken a firm legal stance. Trump is defying it.
Can you site something for what you’re talking about?
That’s just a list of conventions? I could have looked that up. You’re talking about a specific one right?
I’m in tijuana about 10 miles south of the border and it shows as Gulf of America
You’re probably connected to a US access point or have cached map data.
https://blog.google/products/maps/united-states-geographic-name-change-feb-2025/
Maybe. I’m on wifi provided by a Mexican telecom. It’s probably my US sim. The comment i replied to said “it shows as this in mexico” and my point was, no, not for everyone. I’m not interested enough to try to nail down the exact reason.
Ok?
If it’s in english and it shows up like that then it’s most likely because you have your language set to english (USA).
Ive been already boycotting google, amazon, facebook, reddit. Yall need to get on it
it really sucks when you realise that virtually everything is a US company… and yet everything they sell is made in fucking China
My phone is a Pixel on Google Fi, and I have a YouTube premium account. I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me :( lol
Nah. I’ll start boycotting google when there are useful alternatives. Amazon, facebook, reddit - no problem.
Google search - fine, I can get by with DDG or Yandex. Gmail - sure, whatever. Maps? Organic Maps (and other openstreetmaps front-ends) works alright for getting your bearings, but it’s a far cry from useful for finding businesses, and terrible for navigation. Waze used to be the only viable alternative, but ever since Google bought them, it’s hard to justify a full boycott without massively inconveniencing myself.
Same for meta as a whole. Facebook and Instagram, sure, no need. But living without whatsapp is simply impossible in some countries, where it’s the de-facto standard for communication, and even used as the only means of contact with government agencies.
We did it with Lemmy. It CAN be done!
Yeah its true unfortunately
Fr, I try, but it’s really not possible to get away from these companies.
Nobody wants signal, nobody wants mastodon, nobody wants or frankly can use openstreetmaps. Alternatives are just not good enough
Alternatives are just not good enough
And to no fault of their own of course. They just aren’t working with the same resources as Google and the others.
I think it’s more a question of stepping down our level of comfort at this point. Can we live without a particular service that Google provides, when there are no alternatives with feature parity? Or can we live with the fact that some of the features aren’t working as well or missing, and use the alternatives anyway?
Yeah, I still find it impressive how good mastodon and lemmy are given the limitations.
For sure, and that is possible for personal things, but for social things it’s almost impossible to live without some features.
People don’t want to step down their level of comfort when it comes to WhatsApp (where I live people don’t use SMS because they’re limited), so you’re forced to either keep your contacts (which includes family) or move to signal/threema/session/matrix/etc. But have no one to talk to
If you disapprove of internet companies caving to authoritarian politics, I have bad news for you about Yandex
Senkaku Islands are the center of a dispute between Japan and China, both claim them, both have names for them. Wikipedia goes more in depth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senkaku_Islands
On google maps we get…
So it’s not like they can’t give stuff multiple names.
That’s what YOU get since you’re neither in China nor Japan. They only get to see their relative government’s name. China in fact gets to see nothing since they block Google, but it you happen to be in Hong Kong or Macau, you would.
Whenever I see Gulf of America mentioned, in my head it sounds like “This is America” in the Childish Gambino song.
Gulf of America, don’t catch you shippin now, look where I’m fishin now, potus be trippin yo (woo), gulf of america
😄
What I see is “Gulf of Swastika”. A name dictated by an authoritarian Nazi without proper procedure, that symbolizes the Trump administration.
Meh I’ll still use Google.
I don’t. DuckDuckGo and an alternative email provider are wonderful.
DuckDuckGo is just Bing. And Microsoft is not any better in terms of kissing Trump’s ass.
Not quite.
DuckDuckGo’s results are a compilation of “over 400” sources according to itself, including Bing, Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wolfram Alpha , Yandex, and its own web crawler (the DuckDuckBot); but none from Google. It also uses data from sites such as wikipedia, to populate knowledge panel boxes to the right of the search results.
Its main partnership is with Bing.
And this is why it’s a problem: https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/17/brave_duckduckgo/
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I can understand why. To each their own.
Maybe this is the thing that finally unites the cartels.
Less threatening… More doing.
The U.S. dictatorship are just doing and they’re slowly tearing apart OUR planet.
Bro, are you ok? “US dictayorship”? Trump was elected by the majority of Americans. How is Trump destroying YOUR planet? By changing the name of the gulf? Is this the biggest problem “your” planet has?
Fukin soypeople…
Oh yeah, I forgot. Implying people enjoy soy is an insult. Ouch! My feelings.
I never said Dictayorship. Because that’s terrible spelling of the only word you needed to spell correctly to actually criticise me. I also never linked the mislabeling of the Gulf as destroying the planet. He is though…
He proclaimed that he will “OWN” Gaza through means of literal ethnic cleansing. He’s conspiring with Putin to help finalise his invasion of eastern Ukraine. He’s currently purging the Government of minorities and people he deems unloyal. Elon Musk is infiltrating and tearing up government departments as an unelected right-hand entity. His right-wing army are, by algorithm, shifting the western world easily into fascism. I could go on but I’m done with you.
Bottom line… pay attention.
Also… the fact that you put forward Trump was elected by majority of Americans is a straight out lie. Grow up.
Oh, I mistyped a word, while writing on my phone. That means I’m wrong, who did I miss that?!
Its also funny how you say Trump “is infiltrating and tearing down government departments”. Bro, he’s the president, everything he’s doing it’s in his powers. Did the previous president also “infiltrate” the government departments?
He’s “purging” the DEI hires, the people who are there just because of their skin color or sexual preferences, did you forget how the former white house speaker was “the first gay black woman”? That’s the only thing that recomended her.
I’m really curious how Trump being elected by the majority of the Americans is a lie, please enlighten me.
Proud soyboi checkin in
I like edamame and fried tofu. Does that make me one too?
Soybois unite!
You need actual therapy
He literally said he would be a dictator if elected.
Maybe pay attention rather than hurl silly insults.
Trump said on the “day one” he referred to, he would use his presidential powers to close the southern border with Mexico
That’s from article you linked. Maybe read the content of the articles you link to, not just the headlines.
I read it. How does that mean he didn’t literally say he would be a dictator if elected? That was one of the examples he gave of how he would be a dictator.
He said “for one day, in order to secure the border with Mexico”. Let’s completely ignore that and run with the headline that supports your view, right?
I did the exact opposite of completely ignoring it. I literally said, “that was one of the examples he gave of how he would be a dictator.”
Weird to accuse me of ignoring something I addressed directly. I’m not sure what you hoped to achieve.
Dude, you are taking words out of context, you aren’t addressing anything. You read the word “dictator”, saw red in front of your eyes and ran with it.
It’s day 25. So Trump broke his campaign pledge to be dictator “only” on day one.
How? What makes him a dictator today?
What doesnt? You have a billionaire giving him orders who wasnt even elected
class action please, so we can let our powers combine
Republicans are so good at baiting liberals into useless bullshit arguments, while they plunder stuff that actually matters.
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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
or we keep american shit inside america. fuck googlemaps, apple and all other shitty US corporations. see, tump will die some day and be forgotten, but people will remember what apple and google did. next time you see someone work for alphabet…spit them in the face. next time an american buys a burger, you spit on it. etc. it is not about actual harm as america is killing itself anyway atm. my bingo card says if trump wins twice, there shall also be two pandemics. maybe protest the egg prices a bit more before using that muri-brain to do sth. against it. americans are just stupid.
