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Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. (for this community, why is Google the defacto authority here?) (www.thecentersquare.com)

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cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/1485960

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote a letter asking Google to reject the U.S. decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on its mapping service.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Google has authority because both Google Maps and Waze are extremely popular and both controlled by Google/Alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

This is going to be important too because a lot of people are going to be walking into the ocean over the next few years, and are going to need directions to it.