A similar story that came out around the time of the “Gulf of America“ debacle basically just said that the database they use for naming bodies of water had been updated, and therefore that carried through to Maps.
So it wasn’t really a decision one way or the other, it was a continuation of an existing policy of where names come from.
They could just not do it. Nothing would happen. It's a little moronic that they act so hands off. I get it having a policy is nice for actual controversies between nations but one person wants this (who has probably never used Google Maps), it would be harmless for them to ignore it but instead they piss off half of one country and all of the other.
Complete lack of judgment from whoever made this change happen
Always funny to me how people expected Google to do anything else other than roll over.
Should be a lesson to the dems next term, either extort the tech giants, the mere threat of the government taking action against Google makes them jump on these dumb name changes. Otherwise, get them on their side to change the law to prevent this kind of shit show ever again.
It's pretty clear you could do serious damage to a corporation as the president and get away with it, and that should change.
Here in Canada, no one cares. This 400+ year old name for a lake has not changed, and the tantrum of that pants-shitting worldwide embarrassment changes nothing. As an act of "trolling" -- how Trump's bizarrely stupid cult sees it, cheering on the utter destruction of the nation -- this is akin to shitting your own pants to troll people. Which...I mean...perfect metaphor.
And for America, you should never change it back. You must live with this pox for eternity (basically fReEdOm FrIeS x 10000). For Americans, your education system should forever tell you it is Lake America, and the Gulf of America, and this clownery must hang on you like a scarlet letter. You elected this unbelievably incompetent, corrupt bag of human shit twice, and your government is the government you deserve. Trump is 100% who you all are.
And I completely get why Google changed it. The US has a mad king, with zero checks or balances. If Google didn't change it, at least for Americans, your hyper-corrupt joke of a government would have somehow punished them for not immediately bowing down to your impetuous toddler with the nuclear launch codes.
Man, remember back when the US was a model for the world? Now you're a fucking joke. You have a completely lawless, limitless mad king who utterly hates democracy. And I mean, you're going to really learn that in the midterms. And you'll all go "gosh, wow, so bad" and go back to flushing your country down the toilet.
One silver lining about all this is that at least we got relentless prosecution against sandwich throwers. A precedent has been set for any and all hoagie heroes or throwers of sandwiches. The real mockery is that the Biden administration didn’t have the strength to send a firm message to the corrupt, lawless, unpatriotic, horrible people, sandwich throwers.
A similar story that came out around the time of the “Gulf of America“ debacle basically just said that the database they use for naming bodies of water had been updated, and therefore that carried through to Maps.
So it wasn’t really a decision one way or the other, it was a continuation of an existing policy of where names come from.
Woah hold on buddy, that take is way too reasonable for an internet forum!
They could just not do it. Nothing would happen. It's a little moronic that they act so hands off. I get it having a policy is nice for actual controversies between nations but one person wants this (who has probably never used Google Maps), it would be harmless for them to ignore it but instead they piss off half of one country and all of the other.
Complete lack of judgment from whoever made this change happen
Always funny to me how people expected Google to do anything else other than roll over.
Should be a lesson to the dems next term, either extort the tech giants, the mere threat of the government taking action against Google makes them jump on these dumb name changes. Otherwise, get them on their side to change the law to prevent this kind of shit show ever again.
It's pretty clear you could do serious damage to a corporation as the president and get away with it, and that should change.
Eh...Fury?
Here in Canada, no one cares. This 400+ year old name for a lake has not changed, and the tantrum of that pants-shitting worldwide embarrassment changes nothing. As an act of "trolling" -- how Trump's bizarrely stupid cult sees it, cheering on the utter destruction of the nation -- this is akin to shitting your own pants to troll people. Which...I mean...perfect metaphor.
And for America, you should never change it back. You must live with this pox for eternity (basically fReEdOm FrIeS x 10000). For Americans, your education system should forever tell you it is Lake America, and the Gulf of America, and this clownery must hang on you like a scarlet letter. You elected this unbelievably incompetent, corrupt bag of human shit twice, and your government is the government you deserve. Trump is 100% who you all are.
And I completely get why Google changed it. The US has a mad king, with zero checks or balances. If Google didn't change it, at least for Americans, your hyper-corrupt joke of a government would have somehow punished them for not immediately bowing down to your impetuous toddler with the nuclear launch codes.
Man, remember back when the US was a model for the world? Now you're a fucking joke. You have a completely lawless, limitless mad king who utterly hates democracy. And I mean, you're going to really learn that in the midterms. And you'll all go "gosh, wow, so bad" and go back to flushing your country down the toilet.
The number of people fulminating on HN despite the guideline forbidding it is really getting out of hand.
One silver lining about all this is that at least we got relentless prosecution against sandwich throwers. A precedent has been set for any and all hoagie heroes or throwers of sandwiches. The real mockery is that the Biden administration didn’t have the strength to send a firm message to the corrupt, lawless, unpatriotic, horrible people, sandwich throwers.
It'll pass.