The Google simps are inflicting Trumpiness on the rest of the world too
This is the map of the Gulf of Mexico as seen from outside the US on Google Maps.
Google said it would foist the Gulf of America idiocy only on its US users, but apparently the temptation to flatter His Orangeness was too much, so the rest of the world gets to enjoy it too.
I figured I'd rename it too. I mean why not after all: it seems any idiot can make up geography now.
Now is a better time than ever to stop relying on US-based companies if they're so beholden to fascists. Any suggestions for alternative map/gps services?
OpenStreetMap is the "Wikipedia of maps", which provides free user-created map data. There are many navigation apps which use OSM data. Organic Maps is one that is often recommended.
After getting the permission to name the Gulf of Mexico "Gulf of America", like for a football stadion, the name can be sold to the highest bidder, to be named, e.g. Gulf of Pepsi Co, Gulf of Exxon,...
This money surely will be used to decrease the egg price. /s
If you couldn't tell this isn't a political war, it's a class war. We need to stand up to these mega corporations because their billionaire CEOs are the root cause of this issue and we're all happily donating money to them by letting them use our data for free.
Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon... They are all actively involved in every other "important thing" you could mention.
They've always done that for other contested regions of the world (e.g. sea of Japan/Korea, West Bank/Judea and Samaria, East Turkestan/Xinjiang).
They don't want to rile up potential personal gps data cash cows satisfied users.
The thing is like 90% in international waters, who cares if a government renames it the gulf of the the clown car for instance?
I hope there's an international body of geograph somewhere that brings reason to these matters.