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Headline: techdirt, 2/18/2025
Karl Bode writes:
You probably saw that one of Donald Trump’s early executive orders was to demand that the Gulf Of Mexico be renamed the Gulf Of America. It’s pointless pseudo-productivity, and an obvious effort to excite his base’s nationalist and racist tendencies. Amoral cowards at Google got right to work making the change in their map products, causing Mexico to threaten ambiguous legal action.
Media giants, keen to have their big shitty mergers approved, also got right to work making the change. Except for the Associated Press, which said it would continue to continue using the 400-year-old original name, in part because it has a global audience, and in part because the United States doesn’t actually own a large swath of the territory it’s attempting to rename.
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