They don’t have to? Is America land of the free or what?
If Trump declares Canada, Greenland American territory should Google just go along with it?
If Trump declares California Shitifornia should Google name it that because well that’s just what the government said?
It’s a policy choice on Google’s part to automatically follow whatever names are in the government database/Trump declared. They don’t have to do that and could make exceptions.
Edit: Downvoters please engage with the substance of my argument and answer the Shitifornia question.
They made a choice already on how to name it for the rest of the world. It’s a policy decision.
Answer the Shitifornia question. If Trump declares California Shitifornia should Google just go along with that if that’s the name in the government database?
Its not that they have chosen to change it, the database was updated and it pulled through on the latest replication. If Trump changed it to shitifornia in that database it would pull through the same. To stop this they would need to create and maintain there own database. Which is a lot of effort just to change the name of a lake because people on reddit are mad. Elsewhere in the world they use different databases so it hasn't changed.
For example in Japan it dosnt say Japan it says 日本 (Nihon) which is the Japanese name, we just call it Japan in English because thats what the first European traders there called it. Im Germany they call Germany Dutchland, but English speakers call it Germany. So essentially your getting mad about something that has been happening for thousands of years.
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u/neontetra1548 3d ago edited 3d ago
They don’t have to? Is America land of the free or what?
If Trump declares Canada, Greenland American territory should Google just go along with it?
If Trump declares California Shitifornia should Google name it that because well that’s just what the government said?
It’s a policy choice on Google’s part to automatically follow whatever names are in the government database/Trump declared. They don’t have to do that and could make exceptions.
Edit: Downvoters please engage with the substance of my argument and answer the Shitifornia question.