This is the map of the Gulf of Mexico as seen from outside the US on Google Maps.
Google said it would foist the Gulf of America idiocy only on its US users, but apparently the temptation to flatter His Orangeness was too much, so the rest of the world gets to enjoy it too.
I figured I’d rename it too. I mean why not after all: it seems any idiot can make up geography now.
Believe it or not, it’s possible to be worked up by more than one thing.
Google going along with this stupid thing is a symptom of something far graver than the name of a body of water: it’s a manifestation of extreme sycophancy with an unacceptable president in the name of business favors.
Google complying with local laws isn’t anything new. They’ve been complying with China’s social media and search filtering for decades now, this isn’t new behavior for them.
This is a nonsense distraction. Arguing that ‘people can get worked up by more than one thing’ doesn’t fit with the current media strategy of ‘flooding the zone’. People only have so much attention to give and by creating all of these pointless distraction, the people in charge keep people from being able to agree for focus on key issues.
If they want to warp reality because Trump ordered it so in the US, to be consistent with what they do elsewhere, fair enough. My point is, they don’t need to spread this nonsense to the rest of the world. Nobody else but Trump and his suckups is going with the Gulf of America. Why push this US-centric BS outside of the US?