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google is not and never was your friend, it is a dictator tool: Degoogle (i.redd.it)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

this is just keeping your head down and trying to survive the shit storm

They aren't a mom&pop small bussiness, they are a multi-national multi-billion dollar conglomerate that spans almost the entire world. They can afford to take the risk. They can "lobby" (aka: bribe) the government and get them to back off. Also, as far as I know, there were no legal requirement of mapmakers to change it. It's always legal under the first amendment for mapmakers to make an "incorrect" map.