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Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. (www.commondreams.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Cat@ponder.cat to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] fx242@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Golf of Portugal While we are at renaming things...

[–] dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Your issue is with the fed gov, or what is left of it

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

This is stupid. Google is doing it with their normal process, labeling the USA as a sensitive country in their system and ~~changing the label only for the sensitive snowflakes. So there is no harm to Mexicans in Mexico.~~ (this was wrong, it's show globally in parenthesis, see below)

What sort of damages would she assert anyway? That her country suffers in a significant way from a Google Maps label that can only be seen from the sensitive country? How so?

And if it's a political move what is she hoping to achieve? Google will never cave to the USA before Mexico, they depend more on their US operations than their Mexican ones. So she can't achieve anything politically. Does she want to draw even more attention to a losing fight? A losing fight over mere symbolism no less? Why?

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