Mexico’s president to send Google letter over Gulf of America change

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5113814-mexico-google-name-change/

28 comments

  1. If it starts showing up in Google Maps, right click the location and report a problem with the data.

  2. >President Trump ordered the name change last week on the day of his inauguration, making good on a campaign promise.

    I find it wild that the US, supposedly this bastion of democracy, has a system that creates an unaccountable dictator every four years.

  3. I’m confused because I’m seeing Gulf of Mexico (which is correct) on google maps.

  4. Let’s compromise and call it the “Gulf of Canada”.

    No, it doesn’t make sense, but it’s kind of funny and that’s what matters.

  5. Can’t wait until I get to dip my toes into the warm waters of el golfo de México.

  6. I’m still calling it the Gulf of Mexico. I don’t care for petty name changes.

  7. This isn’t about appeasing one asshole.

    This is about being a country on this planet that has the bare minimum level of respect for other nations.

    The USA under Trump is a classless brutish ogre of trash talk and bullying.

    This isn’t strength.

    This is weakness.

    If he had any respect he wouldn’t need to try to force himself on women, and governments.

    Rapists gonna rape

  8. I’m sure a strongly worded letter will carry more weight than the millions/billions of dollars Google is getting from cozying up to Trump.

  10. Google does this for countries that have different names for things on maps. They will change it to Gulf of America for users in the USA, and It *should* remain Gulf of Mexico for people outside the USA.

  12. The Gulf of America is the gulf between wealthy and poor.

  14. I can’t imagine holding one of the most important positions on the planet and feeling like this is worth your time. Hell, I make 50k/yr and this shit isn’t worth MY time.

  15. To settle the issue, all nations that border the Gulf will be given equal naming rights. The Gulf of Cuba-USA-Mexico, or for short the Gulf of C.U.M

  16. The Gulf of America is just this generations Freedom Fries. It’s stupid, cringe and will not stick.

  19. **I don’t know about you, but I intend to write a strongly worded letter to the the President of the United States about all of this.**

  20. Fuck it, I’m calling it the Gulf of McGulfface

  22. Renaming the Gulf is such small dick energy. Who cares if it’s named after Mexico? They were here first. Doesn’t make American less of a super power.

  23. It’s the Gulf of Mexico and I will never call it anything but that. Calling it that doesn’t diminish the USA one bit, but calling it Gulf of America shows support for an insecure and racist dictator who is needling as many non-white people as he can right now.

    Oh yeah, and calling it Gulf of America won’t make us great either. Anyone who does just looks stupid right now.

  24. I’ll be honest, I’m not perturbed by the name change. For one, it’s only how the US sees it. Just like foreign place names being different, for example Deutschland vs Germany.

    Two, it actually makes more sense to call it The Gulf of America, though maybe Gulf of the Americas would be more accurate, because it the gulf of America. Cartographically, it makes the most sense.

    I’ll still most likely refer to it as the Gulf of Mexico, but I still call the Sears Tower the Sears Tower instead of whatever it’s called these days.

  25. So Google does this for countries with border disputes. See [Kashmir](https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/google-maps-marks-kashmirs-outlines-as-disputed-when-seen-from-outside-india/amp_articleshow/74149373.cms) as an example. I think they have done the same as Crimea.

    I think it’s dumb to bend to the will of one country just because they are fighting a war over a region and you don’t want to piss them off.

    However, it’s even DUMBER to do this to placate a narcissist who’s trying to make this a political win while screwing everything else up and putting people in interment camps.

    I mean did Google change the search results for french fries to “freedom fries”? I honestly don’t remember, but this is just as stupid.

  26. The media will call it the Gulf of America formerly called the Gulf of Mexico.

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