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[–] hulfpa@lemmy.ml 141 points 2 months ago (11 children)

This move makes zero sense to me. Why, change it? It's not it's official name or international recognized name so wtf

[–] Darorad@lemmy.world 107 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Curry favor with the trump admin

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 78 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

And it will undoubtedly pay off for them. This is the first brazenly tech oligarchy-driven administration.

Remember who was at Trump’s inauguration? Musk, obviously, but also:

  • Tim Cook, CEO of Apple
  • Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon
  • Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta
  • Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet

.
Trump, a populist president, is flanked by tech billionaires at his inauguration

Tim Apple isn’t your friend, either. No oligarch is.

[–] ImFineJustABitTired@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I was hoping Apple wouldn’t be there considering Tim is openly gay

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 36 points 2 months ago

Openly gay, but secretly a billionaire.

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

He donated to Trump right from his pockets. He’s a traitor.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be clear, they've changed names in line with official government policy before, not just for Trump's admin.

[–] hulfpa@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If something as ridiculous currys favor and infkuence with Trump the USA is truly coming to an end.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 18 points 2 months ago

I'll remind you of freedom fries.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

It's not coming to an end as in no longer existing, but it absolutely is as a world power. Maybe it will be for the better in the long run.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 67 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The USA is now part of a list of "sensitive countries" with authoritarian states with their own version of reality. When users in one of the countries on this list visit Google sites, they see that government's version of reality. This is nothing new. Google does it all the time with disputed territories. It's only news because it's the first time the US has an authoritarian government.

Here's how it looks when visiting from a Mexican device with the language set to Australian English while located in Hungary.

1000019054

Edit: undoxxed myself lol

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In Google maps set to Polish while in the UK, it shows

Zatoka Meksykańska (Zatoka Amerykańska)

Which translates to

Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)

[–] Junkers_Klunker@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Google maps set to Danish in Denmark is the exact same 🤦‍♂️

[–] mathiouchio@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

But who would want to play golf there

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 11 points 2 months ago

...looks pretty much the same on bing maps, except they're so committed that they named it twice...

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 38 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Distraction from:

  • closing down the Consumer Protection Agency, USAID, and the Education Agency
  • cutting off funding to the universities
  • stealing our student, treasury and health records while taking over the purse
  • not following federal judge's orders
  • building an unregulated concentration camp in Cuba
  • etc.

Edit: That's why trump did it. All tech companies are in his hands now.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, there are no smokescreens. Trump is literally this stupid. Don't attribute to maliciousness what can be attributed to narcissism.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to post this somewhere else:

“The opposition party is the media,” Steve Bannon, who helped run Trump’s 2016 campaign, told PBS Frontline five years ago. “And the media can only — because they’re dumb and they’re lazy — they can only focus on one thing at a time.”

So the solution, per Bannon? Overwhelm them.

“All we have to do is flood the zone,” he said. “Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done, bang, bang, bang. These guys will never — will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity.”

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5289315/trump-week-in-review

[–] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think I heard that Trump did it because he thinks it gets him around some Biden era rule that he can’t reverse that bans oil drilling in parts of the “Gulf of Mexico.” It’s really stupid. Exxon and Chevron have both “acknowledged” the name change.

[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Oh that makes sense. Like when muskrat tried to get out of Twitter suis because the name changed.

[–] ooli2@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

pleasing the power, so they remove any law that protect our privacy against google prying eye

[–] index@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It could be simply because they can do it, peasant

[–] hulfpa@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Thayana good point. I need to remember my place in this world 🤣

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Should look up what they want to rename Greenland

[–] ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Then you must not be paying much attention, or have an understanding of how capitalism functions (nor of how and why it inevitably decays in to fascism).

[–] lorski@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Ass kissing pure and simple. Kneel to the dictator level shit.

[–] objject_not_found@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I also find the word "America" too latino. wouldn't it be better to change it with an English word?

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Why change it?

White supremacy.