Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico)
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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Blocking the press is how the Trump admin can they make this absurd distraction a much bigger deal with no repercussions. The power of names is much diminished in these times.
But I thought dead naming was cool? Now you want to use preferred names.
Any press still allowed in is just bootlicking government mouthpieces anyway.
Gives me a little extra respect for AP than before. Don't comply with fascists. Make them show just how incredibly sensitive and ridiculous they are.
More respect for the AP? Them and Reuters are the two defacto news orgs that 95% of other news get their articles from lmfao.
I love AP, too. Even Reuters can get a little eyebrow-raising sometimes, but I find AP pretty consistently solid. They're straight-up targeting the actual, real-deal journalists. ProPublica's likely to be fucked with, too.
Also, don't accept or repeat their narratives.
So Trump is offended that the AP deadnamed his gulf? Imagine that…
Not even deadnamed. The "name change" only impacts like a specific section of it, not the whole thing.
Good. Get punished. Don't go along with it. If you start bowing and scraping so you won't get ejected from the oval office, then that will enable that much more the gradual evolution that will lead you along with many other people to get "punished" in ways that are far more severe. Like, barges floating off of Gitmo or working in the fields on a prison labor system severe. It is insane to me that people are taking all of this so lightly and going along with it.
Even from the ideal pro-capitalist hat on; AP benefits from this. It might seem that short term they lose money by not having hot off the press news to sell, but long term they keep their credibility, which is ultimately the product they sell.
Any thoughts on how can I punish Google for renaming stuff in Google Maps? My company is already removing Google Analytics and Google Maps from our web site and has halted a planned migration to Google Workspace. And I have personally stopped using Chrome and Google Search which is just a cesspool of AI generated from garbage anymore anyway. But surely there must be more I can do...
Absolutely. That's a good start. Mouseflow or one of its competitors honestly was always more useful to me than Google Analytics. Honestly, as far as I know, a huge share of their income still comes from search ads and YouTube. I think if you just avoid those things, you're already doing more or less as much as you can.
Oh, also, publicize duckduckgo and friends over Google. Google search has become far less useful than it used to be, anyway.
Honestly, web analytics are just stupid unless your business is selling ads. Its just vanity outside of that business case
It’s useful to check how people are using your site, if they’re getting stuck or there are spots that are hard to navigate, things like that. That’s true irrespective of whether you’re selling ads. I think it’s just that the people who are making money off the thing are a lot more likely to be bothered to invest energy into making sure their users are having a productive experience.
Yeah been using Firefox for over a decade now. I just switched to duckduckgo about a year ago. It took about a month to get used to, but now I love it. Especially since I keep hearing how Google searches are getting worse and worse anyway. I still use youtube, but I don't use the app and block all ads at least. I put blocks on my network for Google analytics and going to try and give up my Google email address... somehow? I am realizing quick how hard it is to completely cut yourself off from this one company.
Confirmed, the US is a sensitive country
What happened to "snowflakes"? I guess that just like everything else, it was projection.
Thanks to climate change the snowflakes melted. /hj
Yellow snow “flakes”
Just send them to Denali...
I too, am not allowed into the Oval Office.
Better that I'm not allowed in it, I think.
We should make our own Oval Office with blackjack and hookers!
Wait…the official one probably has those too. Blackjack, hookers, AND the Gulf of Mexico!
Me as well
Dozens of us.
So dumb. What a sniveling child.
Classic fashy behavior.
toss another lawsuit on the fire in 4... 3... 2... 1...
Sure seems like he's filled that swamp back up
That's actually pretty pathetic
Side note: everyone called it Denali before Obama renamed it anyway, and everyone is doing to continue to call it Denali
one is an international body of water, the other is wholly contained within the borders of the u.s. that's why they went that route.
The Fourth Estate has been dead a long time now. Every once in a while you get someone that pushes back , but then they seem to get quietened.
Good for them
This is a pretty open and shut first amendment violation, no?
Can't see why. The government isn't telling them what they can't say, only barring them from listening to the administration first hand.
But no worries! The blatant 1st violations will be along soon enough. The notion of free speech is too sacred to us Americans to trash right up from, takes some time.
It's not a free speech issue it's a free press issue:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The press is called out separately on purpose.
Of course, actually it states congress, but the supreme Court has ruled that it applies to all members of the government, and so thanks to common law, it would apply here.
They are effectively telling them what they can and cannot say by punishing them for not saying the thing the admin wants them to say.
I believe it could cause a chilling effect ... By actually icing them down.
And what if it is?, you can just add it to the list I guess, it chances nothing
Special operation
A special golf operation.. there's no reason americans should have to think of mexico when playing golf
Snowflakes 🙄
So fragile
Repubs were always the cuckflake bitches.
Seems like a balanced and fair response /s