Summary
Google has reclassified the U.S. as a “sensitive country” following Trump’s announcement to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” and Mount Denali as Mount McKinley.
The designation, typically reserved for nations with border disputes or strict governments, reflects the growing challenges tech companies face under Trump’s second term.
Google Maps has prioritized updating these name changes, treating them similarly to disputed regions like the Persian Gulf.
The reclassification may impact how Google handles U.S. geographic labels moving forward.
You don’t have to be polite Google. The more proper term is ‘snowflake country’… our government has the absolute thinnest skin.
“Snowflake” is still pretty polite. But “pussy” is politically incorrect. There’s probably a better word out there.
If the president doesn’t shy away from using a politically incorrect word like that, then I find it entirely justified to use the same term when talking about him and the country he represents.
It’s a baby dictator, not a snowflake.
lmao
NOAA government nautical chart from today:
The executive order gave something like 3 months for the secretary of interior to rename it. Trump’s guy hasnt been confirmed as secretary of interior.
Snitches get stitches.
Would that mean we, as a country, are now snowflakes? 😅
So much for ending woke culture
Turns out Republicans were the true soy boys
May be an unpopular opinion, but Google is right! It may also be that I’ve only read the headlines and am totally off-base, but ….
It’s not google’s business to decide what to call things, nor would they want any controversies attached to it. Every country and internationally has data with what they want to call things. It’s their right to do so, even snowflake countries trying to erase cultures and history. It’s in Google’s best interest to implement exactly what those official data sources call things, presumably those have gone through whatever due process exists, without regard to what they think is right or wrong. If there’s evidence of the country being a special snowflake, or launching a flurry of changes, it’s in Googles interest to implement those changes more quickly, but NOT to take matters into their own hands
This reminds of how when the unicode consortium had to add flag emojis, instead of opening the can of worms on what countries are independent or not, they just noped out of it and let the implementers decide which combinations of regional indicator letters render as country flags.
Meanwhile, Google Maps shows Gulf of America now… So, take it with a grain of crack.
I live in the US in a very red state and mine still shows “Gulf of Mexico”
Only for the United States, I still see “Gulf of Mexico” in Australia
I’m in the US and just updated Google Maps and it still shows the correct name.
At least try not to talk out of your assIt’s still correctly labeled as Gulf of Mexico on my Google maps
I’m going to start calling it the Gulf of Cuba.
Osmand+ still safe
