Liberals put up the fiercest fights for the things of least consequence.
Google is full of lanyard wearing freaks that are only doing the rename in Maps because Trump's people filled out all the proper forms.
In the U.S., the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) has officially updated “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America.”
https://blog.google/products/maps/united-states-geographic-name-change-feb-2025/
So this is just lanyard on lanyard violence
I suppose their options were: 1) do it, 2) quit, or 3) stand up to Sundar Pichai and never work in the industry again.
He was among the tech oligarchs at the inauguration last month.
2 and 3 are not really viable and Google already had a policy in place for disputed territories. For example look at Kashmir, it gets rendered differently if you are in India vs Pakistan, so I mean Google employees just shrug and implement the same thing. If America wants to have a temper tantrum and call it the Gulf of America, like fine whatever, it's stupid, just mark it in the system as such and move on.
Google has far more serious topics that its employees should strike, and have struck over.
"Political power comes from the report button" unknown author, circa 2025
