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

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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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Republicans are so good at baiting liberals into useless bullshit arguments, while they plunder stuff that actually matters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I don't think that's fair in this case, she's been killing it. She's been drawing hard lines and meeting Trump blow for blow...

As for what's important, she got concessions so far. Trump got to claim a win, but she let Trump use a previously negotiated deal while getting the US to commit to cracking down on the flow of guns into Mexico

And now she's fighting on the bullshit culture war stuff... But you know Mexico speaks a different language and isn't changing the name on their side, right?

The threats against Google are a threat to crack down on a massive US tech company, which is probably (undoubtedly) related to the threat of delayed tarrifs

She's playing the game. If only the liberals would wake up and realize the game has changed too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I mean it's Mexico. I wouldn't really consider them "liberal".

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Google also removed the ability to suggest edits to specifically the Gulf.

Guess they knew ahead of time they'd get an influx of requests to change or back.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

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

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