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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

FUCK YEAH, DO IT DO IT FUCKING DO IT! Please sue the fuck outta those shitfucks!

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

class action please, so we can let our powers combine

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Maybe this is the thing that finally unites the cartels.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm in tijuana about 10 miles south of the border and it shows as Gulf of America

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I thought they just did that in the US

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

It's Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) outside of the USA and just Gulf of Mexico in Mexico. Absolute insanity

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