Paterson said everyone on council has been asked about Trump’s latest move and how they intend to reply.
“The overwhelming sentiment is that it’s not worth even responding,” said Paterson. “It’s not worth wasting our time. The best thing we can possibly do is just ignore the silliness.”
And yet Google folded like a cheap suit and have already renamed it in google earth before the sharpie ink was dry.
For people in the states? It hasn’t changed for me.
Google isn’t the good guys so I’m not surprised…
Yup, for the states. If you access it from elsewhere it hasn’t changed… at least not yet. I guess google doesn’t want to anger Sir Shitsalot.
For a day or so it showed “Lake Ontario (Lake America)” for me
Edit: now it’s back to Lake Ontario
Pretty sure it’s all just automated; maps pulls in data from “verified providers” for new roads, buildings, etc. They used to do all the work but that doesn’t scale and it’s hard to discover building renames, etc. So they built the infra to allow verified parties to push changes. I used to work with HERE’s map databases (competitor) and also spent some time at Google, but not on the maps team.
I never thought you might need a vpn just to get around region-locked world maps, yet here we are.
Yeah there’s quite a lot of region management going on now. These companies need to meet data residency and other regional laws/requirements, and they do this pretty naively. You can bypass a lot by VPNing in to whatever country most aligns with your values.
They didn’t fold, Google is a maga company
Ya, long gone are the “Don’t be Evil” days. Now it’s “Don’t! Be Evil!”
