After announcing it would be renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, Google has officially changed on its Maps application.
  • Opinionhaver@feddit.ukEnglish
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    19 hours ago

    This doesn’t really have anything to do with facts, though. Names of people, objects and places change all the time.

    • ubergeek@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      18 hours ago

      Yes, based on nationalist reasons, to chnage facts to suit governments.

      This is no different to google kowtowing to China’s imagined borders.

      The fact is the worls knows this is the Gulf of Mexico. Not whatever Trump imagines it to be callled. Denali is still Denali, as well.