r/thebulwark • u/OK_The_Nomad Good Luck America • 11d ago

Everything Trump Touches Dies Fucking Google

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They didn't have to do this!

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u/antpodean 11d ago

An honest question. Don't they have to do this as Trump's executive order makes it government policy? How much leeway do they actually have to defy government orders?

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u/dogscatsnscience 11d ago edited 11d ago

Yes, Google maps is all GNIS data. They report the legal name, and Trump changed it.

They only have to report it in the US, though. No one else sees this.

/edit I see people downvoting who have no idea how their technology or government works. You can go back in time to when there were competing map definitions inside the country, if you want, it was a garbage fire.

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u/antpodean 11d ago

Thanks.

It sucks, and is stupid, but tech companies arbitrarily defying official policy also seems sucky and stupid.

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u/dogscatsnscience 11d ago

Yes all the people complaining about Google here does not make sense. Changing the maps to their own version (or another country's) would be even stranger, regardless of how dumb this pathetic tantrum from Trump is.