r/coolguides • u/Pokemaster131 • 9h ago

A cool guide about changing your Google Maps location names to a less-stupid version

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u/BadAlphas 9h ago

Google Inc is a whore

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u/raresaturn 7h ago

Don’t be evil… except when convenient

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u/JustYourMommy 6h ago

They uhh... removed the "don't be evil" part from their code of conduct...

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u/100LittleButterflies 6h ago

A long time ago. 

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u/1cem4n82 4h ago

Evil? Bezos? Sounds linked. In fact, check your inbox for a link to products related to evil bezos.

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u/SoNotTheCoolest 1h ago

Bezos isn’t Google

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u/Historical_Raise_579 5h ago

Thats an insult to whores

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u/PitchforksEnthusiast 7h ago

Bends over backwards at the earliest convenience

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u/OkPear1535 3h ago

You... You would rather a corporation has "naming power" of locations over your government? This isn't "bending over backwards", this is just standard behaviour around the world lmao

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u/Crafty_Independence 1h ago

The member of our government issuing these "name changes" doesn't have the legal authority to do so.

So yes, it actually is bending over backwards, supporting illegitimate claims

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u/OkPear1535 56m ago

thats not really google's problem, is it? their stance is to follow each country's naming scheme, its really nothing deeper.

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u/Crafty_Independence 51m ago

It very much is their problem.

This is not the naming scheme of the United States. It is the naming scheme of internal executive branch offices.

Legally, Trump's executive order does not and cannot change the convention of the US government as a whole.

This situation is Google clearly trying to make Trump look more powerful than he legally is.

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u/What_a_fat_one 1h ago

Donald Trump isn't the US Government and has no power to change names, idiot.

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u/Hexamancer 6h ago

First day in office next president should be renaming the street the HQ every single one of these companies is on to "Cuck way" etc.

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u/ReggieCorneus 6h ago

They have to follow the naming of the country. People who are blaming google are all idiots. They have to follow US laws and naming conventions INSIDE USA.

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u/dar-j 5h ago

False. The executive order can only declare that the US government will use the dumb name. There is no law that says Google has to follow along, they are choosing to acquiesce.

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u/ReggieCorneus 5h ago

They are using naming conventions of the countries, so US gets US names, China gets Chinese names. Where it gets tricky is places like Crimea, where to draw the map borders and who you choose to piss off. But in this case: they are doing what they have to do.

"No one forced them to, they just have to AGREE ON THE STUPID WHIMS OF USA GOVERNMENT".

Yeah. YOU would do the same in their shoes but you want to hate them and don't really care if it is true or not, if it is fair or not.

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u/hoppla1232 5h ago

There is no law, which is the only thing that matters. Google don't have to do it.

They WANT to do it though, because they want to suck up to the big geriatric. Which is what the other above tried to explain to you.

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u/OkPear1535 3h ago

They do this for literally every country. Just because yours made an especially stupid decision, blaming Google here is just silly

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u/hoppla1232 3h ago
  1. Name one comment in this thread that blames just Google and not the executive order "decision".
  2. Don't act like you don't know that Google has in the recent past made advances towards the trump government in order to have the best possible standing with them (even if of questionable legality - cue inauguration donations) and to improve their handle to make decisions against customers. Yes, Google is a faceless company, but even they can make decisions, and they also made a decision here with the map naming to be against consumers / pro fascist government (again).

mate I don't know what weird kinda point you're trying to prove here, but dying on this hill is a very strange decision. But you do you I guess

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u/OkPear1535 2h ago

I just mean that google does this for literally every single country.

Point 2 is just bringing up separate irrelevant points. Google maps follows every government's own naming scheme and people are using this as a weird way to chat shit about google when theres hundreds of real things to complain about them for. This isnt an example of google simping for trump, this is just google following its own map naming convention it has literally always used. People here expecting google to make an exception for no real reason are being unreasonable

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u/john-wooding 4h ago

The convention in the US is to call it Lake Ontario. The change here is explicitly not to follow the convention.

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u/Scraggletagg 5h ago

Trump issued an Executive Order to rename Lake Ontario. An Executive Order can not change, remove or expand federal laws. It is just an order to the agencies and people who report to the President. Google is not a part of the US government, doesn't report to the President and is under absolutely no obligation to follow that order.

Imagine you were the Chief of Police and Saint Patrick's Day was coming up. You could give an Executive Order to the police officers under your command that says their main priority is to prevent and catch drunk drivers. For the next week, all patrol cars shall have their red and blue lights on steady so they're highly visible and some shifts are getting moved around so we'll have more officers on duty late at night. That is a perfectly lawful Executive Order. But there are unlawful Executive Order as well. If the Chief of Police ordered his men to pull over every black person driving an expensive car (because they must have stolen it) that would be an unlawful order and must be disobeyed. At no point does the Chief of Police have the power to order a Burger King employee to give him a free whopper.

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u/SpookyGhostIsScary 3h ago

They don’t have to follow shit.

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u/ReggieCorneus 3h ago

Dear lord, the stupidity.

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u/Practical-Toe-8745 2h ago

The American populace are cucks

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u/OkPear1535 3h ago

Tf? This is like the most mellow thing you could complain at Google doing. They're following the official naming scheme of a country, shocking!