Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps | Common Dreams
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Mexican President urges Google to reconsider renaming the Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' on its maps feature at Trump's demand, and threatens legal action.

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.

  • @FurbagEnglish
    19•6 days ago

    I stopped using everything Google. Fascist collaborators won’t get a dime of my money, won’t get my eyeballs on any of their ads, and won’t get a single kilobyte of data from me to sell for profit.

    I’ll keep my gmail account open because all it really does is accumulate spam which probably costs them money.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•6 days ago

      So you stopped using an iPhone too? Because Apple also renamed the gulf in their maps app.

      Is Symbian still good these days?

      • @FurbagEnglish
        11•6 days ago

        I also don’t buy Crapple products either, but that’s a personal choice.

      • Echo DotEnglish
        10•6 days ago

        If anyone is still buying Apple products after the whole slowing phones down the thing and the soldered ram thing and that you can’t fix your own phone thing and the oh you can fix your phone if you use our equipment except our equipment is really expensive and actually you can’t get it thing, then there’s something wrong with you.

      • @[email protected]English
        -8•6 days ago

        Haha, seeing you being downvoted for pointing a fact, tell me everything about the people frequenting this sub.

        Obviously apple can’t be fascist, because Tim Apple is gay!