Democracy Matters 1d ago
I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
Show threadAngie1d ago

@DemocracyMattersALot

I've played around with Google Maps using a VPN and I've found that it only shows as "Gulf of America" in the US. Everywhere else it shows "Gulf of Mexico" with the Trumpian variant underneath in parentheses.

Show threadPino Carafa1d ago

@angiebaby @DemocracyMattersALot And that should not be tolerated. International bodies of water? Reference IHO, UNGEGN and UNCLOS ...

The name is "Gulf of Mexico", so when one is outside the USA, that's what it should say or the local version thereof. Nothing else. No parentheses, nothin'

Show thread🔏 Matthias Wiesmann1d ago
@rozeboosje @angiebaby @DemocracyMattersALot these systems do the same for any contested geographic feature. The real problem is the US gouvernement.
Show threadPino Carafa1d ago
@thias @angiebaby @DemocracyMattersALot Sure but this isn't "contested" as such. Trump (and by extension the USA) isn't claiming ownership. He just unilaterally decided to call it by a different name.
Show thread🔏 Matthias Wiesmann1d ago
@rozeboosje @angiebaby @DemocracyMattersALot The naming is contested, this is similar to the Falkland / Malvinas islands, or the sea of Japan / east-sea.
Show threadPino Carafa

@thias @angiebaby @DemocracyMattersALot No, that's different. What's contested is the ownership of those islands. Both the UK and Argentina claim ownership and, as a result, the right to name them.

The Gulf is international waters. Even Trump isn't so stupid to claim the USA "owns" it. Nor has the USA formally put forward such a change. So on the international stage nothing has changed. And, outside the USA, tools like "Google Maps" should reflect that.

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Show threadPino Carafa1d ago
@thias @angiebaby @DemocracyMattersALot The naming of the Sea of Japan is subject to *official requests* for changes from the Koreas. No such requests have been made by the USA
Show thread🔏 Matthias Wiesmann1d ago
@rozeboosje @angiebaby @DemocracyMattersALot The requesting around the Falkland Islands was a tad less polite, my point is mostly there are many such areas around the world, and the same process is used by map-makers.
Show threadPino Carafa1d ago
@thias @angiebaby @DemocracyMattersALot once again: internationally there is no dispute. The "executive order" only applied to federal agencies inside the USA. The IHO and other organisations were never approached with a request for a name change.
Show thread🔏 Matthias Wiesmann23h ago
@rozeboosje @angiebaby @DemocracyMattersALot I don’t remember Mexico being happy about that change. The fact of the matter is, one part of the US gouvernement claims this is now the official name. It happens to be the part that bombs other countries and operates concentration camps. So map companies comply. Yes there are lots of legal subtleties, nobody cares.
Show threadPino Carafa23h ago
@thias @angiebaby @DemocracyMattersALot Of course they're not but all they've done is laugh in Lord Dampnut's (Donald Trump's) face. They didn't need to lodge a formal complaint with the IHO or the other organisations because they didn't need to.