• HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    It’s even weirder because America doesn’t mean just the United States

    Geographically, America is too ambiguous of a name for the Gulf of Mexico

    Wouldn’t the Gulf of California also qualify as being the Gulf of America?

    The Caribbean Sea?

    Basically every river system from the Mississippi and and the Amazon are also “American” from northernmost point of North America to the southernmost point of South America, it’s all “America”

    Naming the Gulf of Mexico “America” is almost as bad as naming a country “earth”

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    Can someone explain the 4D chess going on here? AFAIK this was just tweet diplomacy, the US hasn’t passed anything about this. So why would google want to handle all the complaints and backlash they’ll take for this?

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      backlash? where? did google received any complaint ever?

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

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      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

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

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    I’m trying to, but Proton made me throw up in my mouth a little.

    Now I have the option to do everything I was doing, but poorly AND spread across 3 vendors.

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        CEO went full maga, was given an opportunity to correct, then doubled down. After receiving blowback he tripled down and then started lashing out at customers using official channels.

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          After receiving blowback he tripled down and then started lashing out at customers using official channels.

          damn, i only followed the dramma for the first couple posts, do you mind posting a link to read the third one?

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    I just did literally the only thing I CAN do, which is rate it 1 star and call out their spinelessness. I’m sure this token, irrelevant act will be ignored at best or manually removed at worst. But until they drag me off to the gulag I’m absolutely not going to shut up and play along.

    Fuck Trump, Musk, their MAGA cult, and anyone who enables or colludes with them or fails to fight back.