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Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. (for this community, why is Google the defacto authority here?) (www.thecentersquare.com)

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cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/1485960

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote a letter asking Google to reject the U.S. decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America on its mapping service.

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[–] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Because Google is going to play both sides.

They’ll look at the geo location of your ip v and name it based on where you’re from.

Not entirely different from changing the language to your local dialect.

Non issue and a distraction from real issues.

Stop giving this meaningless stupidity Any air time.

[–] moody@lemmings.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They said that in Mexico, it will show the Gulf of Mexico, and outside of the US, they will show both names.

[–] oktoberpaard@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

I wonder if they will also show both names in foreign languages. That would only be possible for those languages that use a direct translation of the English name and then still it would be very weird to just add a new name that’s not the official one in that language.

Does anyone know other examples where two names are shown? Plenty of things have different names in different countries or languages, so I’m trying to understand what the criteria are to show both names in an international context. Maybe it only happens for languages where two names exist.

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