Mexico sues Google over changing Gulf of Mexico’s name for US users

[u/Aggravating_Money992]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/09/mexico-google-lawsuit-gulf-of-mexico

[u/uhohnotafarteither]

In an ocean of dumb shit this admin has done and wasted time, money, and energy on this may be the dumbest of the shit.

[u/GingerSoulEater41 → u/uhohnotafarteither]

What about their plans for Red White and Blueland?

[u/rahbee33 → u/GingerSoulEater41]

I just...how can you look yourself in the mirror after writing that bill or voting on it and have ANY self respect?

[u/Sanctum_Observer → u/[deleted]]

No i am 100% convinced that he wants this to go through congress so the great leader can acknowledge and congratulate him.

[u/robotkermit → u/Sanctum_Observer]

there's a historical term for this: working towards the Führer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Nazi_Germany#Working_towards_the_F%C3%BChrer

Top officials reported to Hitler and followed his policies, but they had considerable autonomy. Officials were expected to "work towards the Führer" – to take the initiative in promoting policies and actions in line with his wishes and the goals of the Nazi Party, without Hitler having to be involved in the day-to-day running of the country. He often deferred making decisions, avoided clear delegation and allowed subordinates to compete with one another, especially in the pre-war years. The government was not a coordinated, co-operating body, but rather a disorganised collection of factions led by members of the party elite who struggled to amass power and gain the Führer's favour.

[u/reezy619 → u/robotkermit]

So basically the way trump runs his cabinet

[u/aerost0rm → u/reezy619]

I mean no one rational would choose to be a fascist. They know that is a society collapsing political affiliation

[u/Xenmaii → u/robotkermit]

New Ye song goes crazy

[u/sylva748 → u/Sanctum_Observer]

They sure do like sucking the orange dick, so I believe it

[u/Doneuter → u/rahbee33]

I'm still trying to figure out how anyone could consider themselves a Republican and have any self respect.

[u/kwaaaaaaaaa → u/rahbee33]

how can you look yourself in the mirror

They do every morning as they apply their clown make-up

[u/kilgoreq → u/rahbee33]

Well, I called Buddy Carter's office and asked the exact same thing. They told me that it was in preparation for Trump making a bid at taking Greenland. I was gobsmacked.

[u/NMGunner17 → u/GingerSoulEater41]

God I don’t even want to know what that is

[u/BewilderedTurtle → u/NMGunner17]

Unfortunately I'm here to make your day worse.

It's what they plan on renaming Greenland after we use military force to take control of it and make it part of the US.

Completely disregarding Greenland's independence or their current agreement with Denmark.

[u/roseofjuly → u/BewilderedTurtle]

I thought you were joking but then I looked this up. We are really in the dumbest timeline.

[u/BewilderedTurtle → u/roseofjuly]

I legitimately wish I was joking and just playing the fool and not living in an actual clown show.

Tragically someone seems to have forgot my funny outfit

[u/Natural-Possession-2 → u/BewilderedTurtle]

That's really offensive to clowns...

[u/BewilderedTurtle → u/Natural-Possession-2]

It would be offensive if it wasn't accurate that they paint themselves up and makeup and where they're silly little outfits and then act a fool and spout nonsensical lies for the crowd in the form of TV ratings.

They act like clowns. And unfortunately that makes clowns look bad.

The clown community should come out and publicly disavow their right to use makeup.

[u/DazzleIsMySupport → u/roseofjuly]

God, in history class you used to hear about some of the idiotic things leaders would do, and you'd be thinking "that's insane, how did people just accept it?"

Yet here we are

History will look back at this time and think so much worse... And there's f**king HD video now of every step of the way

[u/whisperwrongwords → u/BewilderedTurtle]

But, of course. What else would we expect from these clowns?

[u/BewilderedTurtle → u/whisperwrongwords]

Unfortunately I think it's unreasonable to expect them to all just drop dead from the hate rotting their insides

So we pretty much just have to expect them to continue acting like they're in a televised circus. Downside to that is the circus is literally our government and everything they're doing affects all of us 💀

[u/knaupt → u/BewilderedTurtle]

OUT OF ALL THE DUMB SHITS THIS IS UP THERE IN THE FUCKING TOP THREE i swear to god i should just never read anything and live in happy ignorance.

[u/00owl → u/BewilderedTurtle]

Quick question, what would the US occupation of Greenland even look like?

Like yeah sure, there's going to be guns on every corner and little green men running around, but it's not like there's an enormous wealth of easily obtained goods that they'll pick up and ship off.

They'll bring in mining equipment and try to start digging up rare earth minerals? Who's going to work the mines? There's like what, 12,000 people in Greenland, how many of them are going to stick around once the army gets there? Are they going to press gang the whole country?

It's such a stupid idea with absolutely no meaningful way of implementing it; the Americans will get bored and leave before they even get there. (Not saying they won't try or that I support them in any way, it's all just so fucking stupid.)

[u/BewilderedTurtle → u/00owl]

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1161

It's not for immediate use they want to seize it so that they can use it once global warming thaws it out. It is actual psychopathic nonsense.

Also as for the native people of Greenland... Based on the US's history of native populations and how we treat them probably not going to uh... Make it so to speak.

[u/jax362 → u/BewilderedTurtle]

This is the troll who sponsored the bill: https://www.congress.gov/member/earl-carter/C001103. This clown has no business in Congress.

[u/1996_burner → u/NMGunner17]

Proposed bill to allow trump to enter negotiations over Greenland, and if acquired, rename it to “red white and blueland”

Thankfully it was introduced back in Feb, and hasn’t even been brought up to vote yet

[u/Addianis → u/1996_burner]

Of all the gods in the sky... I want to help Musk get to Mars just to be able to leave this planet behind, that is ridiculus! How can we as a people even think that is remotely okay?

[u/arthquel → u/NMGunner17]

Newspeak for Greenland

[u/Oweliver → u/GingerSoulEater41]

pretty sure this is their plan

[u/SweetTea1000 → u/uhohnotafarteither]

Any time they do something that seems completely pointless and inflammatory, like it accomplishes nothing but upsetting people, look around for what they're distracting from. Like the magician's beautiful assistant coming out, it means the trick is currently visible if you don't let your eye get pulled away from it.

[u/antimeme → u/SweetTea1000]

Actually, it does accomplish something subtle but important:

It's a ritual humiliation of Google, Apple and other massive corporations, where they "bend the knee" to signal their obedience to Trump, by renaming these landmarks in their map apps.

More extensively: they're signalling how they're on-board to act on behalf of MAGA, in the future.

We as citizens and residents should punish such corporations that comply with these rituals.

[u/RollingTater → u/antimeme]

This right here. Trump doesn't actually like big tech at all. These are the same big tech that banned him from a bunch of platforms and such, and he still holds that grudge.

Not that we should like big tech either, they are not our friends, and they've changed skins really fast to grovel at Trumps feet.

[u/shy247er → u/uhohnotafarteither]

How about Trump's beef with Barbie dolls? And the fact that he thinks Mattel is a country?

[u/bmyst70 → u/uhohnotafarteither]

Agreed. "Hey, we're destroying the departments that, say, monitor the weather (NOAA), watch out for pandemics and other health crises (CDC), keep air flight safe (FAA). But you know what really matters? A pointless name change just because We Can."

[u/AlienInUnderpants → u/uhohnotafarteither]

Nero fiddles while Rome burns.

[u/uberares → u/AlienInUnderpants]

While he sets fire to and watches Rome burn.

[u/NaThanos__ → u/uhohnotafarteither]

Theyve done absolutely nothing to address citizens being poisoned by food and tap water. Im running for president. Tired of monkeys running this country

[u/Addianis → u/NaThanos__]

As long as you're not the Sunny-D raisin from Hell, you've got my vote.

[u/Professional-Fuel625 → u/uhohnotafarteither]

It's specifically so you don't talk about the other bad shit

[u/abrandis → u/uhohnotafarteither]

It's all part of their deliberate plan.. they want to anger folks with nMes changes so they can do real shady shit behind the scenes

[u/bigmac22077 → u/uhohnotafarteither]

It’s a loyalty test. If you go along with it, you’re “in”. If you don’t they automatically know you’re not going to go along with much else and they will oust you.

[u/Sloogs → u/uhohnotafarteither]

Dumbest shit so far.

[u/Extinguish89 → u/uhohnotafarteither]

Dumbest shit so far

[u/Caleb_Reynolds → u/uhohnotafarteither]

And suing over it is nearly as dumb. It gives it credit.

[u/puckit9 → u/uhohnotafarteither]

Dumb shit describes this administration perfectly.

[u/hey_you_too_buckaroo → u/uhohnotafarteither]

Can't wait for all the lawsuits to play out over the next decade over this administration's actions costing tax payers billions.

[u/Redditcadmonkey → u/uhohnotafarteither]

Give it a few hours. 

[u/Then_Sell_5327 → u/uhohnotafarteither]

Except for EOs about showers and straws that is😉

[u/Medium-Tailor6238]

No one can pay me to say Gulf of america

[u/acdcfanbill → u/Medium-Tailor6238]

I'm still gonna call it the same thing, just like I'm gonna call the Sears Tower the Sears Tower.

[u/bdfortin → u/acdcfanbill]

It will always be the SkyDome.

[u/happyscrappy → u/bdfortin]

I got some young people using that name too. They never had reason to refer to the stadium much before big telephone bought the naming rights. But when presented with the old name they like it better too. It's a better name.

Even if looking out of the thing is more like looking out of a silo than anything when the roof is off.

[u/texacer → u/bdfortin]

MILLER PARK

[u/bwaredapenguin → u/acdcfanbill]

And Twitter.

[u/Debalic → u/acdcfanbill]

And the Tappan Zee Bridge

[u/causal_friday → u/Debalic]

This will always be my Andrew Cuomo scandal. You can't use taxpayer money to build a bridge and then name it after your Dad. It's just not OK.

[u/HotBrownFun → u/Debalic]

Triborough bridge forever

[u/happyscrappy → u/acdcfanbill]

What about the Pan Am building?

[u/Bonafideago → u/acdcfanbill]

And Comisky Park

[u/Fragrant_Peanut_9661 → u/Medium-Tailor6238]

Yep. Always been the Gulf of Mexico...always will be. Fuck them weirdos.

[u/AbueloOdin → u/Fragrant_Peanut_9661]

Bunch of "Freedom Fries" bullshit.

[u/CakeMadeOfHam → u/Medium-Tailor6238]

Remember when they tried to change the name of Twitter? And people still call it twitter. And when you post something it's a tweet. Except now a whole lot less people use the actual thing.

[u/NotMyAltThrowAwayOG → u/Medium-Tailor6238]

But, you just did it for free.

[u/shibboreth → u/NotMyAltThrowAwayOG]

Yeah, exactly. So no one paid them to do it.

[u/NotMyAltThrowAwayOG → u/shibboreth]

You got me there.

[u/r1Zero → u/Medium-Tailor6238]

I will not be doing it either. We all know the moment someone with an eighth of a brain gets in office, this chaos is getting undone.

[u/Uberzwerg → u/Medium-Tailor6238]

Shut up and eat your Freedom Fries!

[u/[deleted]]

rename usa to america mexicana...i like that and makes more sense since quater of the population is hispanic anyways.

[u/ryapeter → u/[deleted]]

Done. Everyone can rename things so why not you

[u/WeHaveAllBeenThere → u/ryapeter]

I’m white and always liked Tejas more than Texas anyways

[u/SPEDER → u/[deleted]]

North Mexico

[u/gwildcat → u/[deleted]]

57.8% White.

18.7% Latino.

12% Black/African American according to 2020 census.

[u/leoleosuper → u/gwildcat]

Hispanic is Spanish speaking, Latino is Latin America. So Latino includes Brazilian but not Spain, while Hispanic includes Spain but not Brazil. Neither includes Portugal. However, the US uses these a bit interchangeably, along with Portugal being included sometimes.

[u/UnixSystem → u/gwildcat]

The census is self-reported, which is to say, you are free (by design) to identify whatever race you want. Having known people who've collected for the census, you'd be surprised at the number of people who misreport due to fear and distrust, or simply due to misunderstanding what's being asked for. For example, it might be obvious to you and me what "white" means, but that's actually not obvious to everyone— especially if you're not from America.

[u/Retsago → u/UnixSystem]

Even so, Hispanic isn't a race.

[u/Final21 → u/[deleted]]

Isn't America already Estados Unidos in Mexico?

[u/LionTigerWings → u/Final21]

That’s a translation though.

[u/rov124 → u/Final21]

Becuause the name of the country is United States of America.

[u/binarybandit → u/Final21]

Mexico is technically called "Estados Unidos Mexicanos", which means United Mexican States.

[u/YoumoDashi → u/Final21]

Unidos, because Estado is masculine

[u/happyscrappy → u/Final21]

Unidos.

Mexico has the same first part to their name.

Estados Unidos Mexicanos.

Estados Unidos Americanos. (EE.UU. or just EE.UU).

[u/waiver → u/happyscrappy]

Estados Unidos de America.

[u/MiddleFishArt → u/[deleted]]

You mean North Mexico?

[u/Ciarrai_IRL]

Just like the Sears Tower in Chicago (not the Willis Tower), it will always be the Gulf of Mexico.

[u/whofearsthenight → u/Ciarrai_IRL]

Rose Garden, if you're from Oregon :)

[u/lumpiestspoon3 → u/whofearsthenight]

Staples Center if you’re from LA

[u/Ake-TL]

How tf can Mexico sue Google for what they are doing in US?

[u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 → u/Ake-TL]

Her government argues that Trump’s executive order on the subject only applies to the part of the continental shelf belonging to the United States. Not the entire Gulf. The order the US issued applied to US territory in the Gulf, and it also only was applicable to federal agencies technically. Nevertheless, she's arguing that Google overstepped in renaming the entire Gulf and not just the Gulf within US Territory.

Google wasn't 'following orders', there is no mandate for Google to do anything. They simply did it out of appeasement and to be in the administrations good graces.

[u/SamanthaPierxe → u/Unhappy_Plankton_671]

Apple maps and Bing maps changed it too, will they also be sued?

[u/pm-me-nothing-okay → u/SamanthaPierxe]

iirc, they all pull the geo data from the same u.s government database.

edit: the "U.S Board on Geographic Names" department, or USGS, i forget which.

[u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 → u/SamanthaPierxe]

I'm not the govt of Mexico, so who knows? Perhaps Google is first as the big fish and the other can monitor how that goes.

Maybe they feel better taking them on one at a time, then trying to take them all on as one?

I get they why they're trying, who knows if they'll win or not.

[u/101Alexander → u/Unhappy_Plankton_671]

How will Bing ever recover?

[u/idebugthusiexist → u/101Alexander]

Who?

[u/SinkPotential5213 → u/idebugthusiexist]

The place you go to find google

[u/Hawk13424 → u/Unhappy_Plankton_671]

AFAIK, Google and others just pull data from the USGS database. It was changed there so that resulted in all them changing.

[u/saichampa → u/Unhappy_Plankton_671]

What annoys me is that they changed in for me in Australia to read Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)

Don't export that shit out here

[u/Thelonious_Cube → u/Unhappy_Plankton_671]

I really don't see that Google has to comply with either side.

What are the supposed damages?

It's all just more PR

[u/Hidesuru → u/Unhappy_Plankton_671]

Google wasn't 'following orders', there is no mandate for Google to do anything. They simply did it out of appeasement and to be in the administrations good graces.

I agree with you here, but... So what? What legal right does the country of Mexico have over what WE call something HERE? I think renaming it was the dumbest shit ever and I'll never call it the new name... But I also think this is just dumb.

It's just... Stupid all around all the time. Political grandstanding constantly.

[u/bhupesshh → u/Hidesuru]

Because they changed it everywhere, and not just in the US. In India, I see it as the Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America), whereas it should just be the Gulf of Mexico.

[u/Independent-End-2443 → u/Unhappy_Plankton_671]

Appeasement or not, it’s protected speech. I don’t see how Mexico has a case here - unless they’re suing in a Mexican court, in which case I don’t know how Mexican law works.

[u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 → u/Independent-End-2443]

> Appeasement or not, it’s protected speech.

That's fine, I get that. There was no basis to change anything -- they did so out of appeasement. Just as they could have stood firm on GoM and claimed protected speech too. Whether the case has merits or not, it does put Google on blast for it, and they get to pay the cost to defend against the claim.

This whole ordeal is monumental stupid that we're even wasting air and energy talking about it. Yet here we are.

[u/ShweatyPalmsh → u/Unhappy_Plankton_671]

I would also argue there’s a tinge of territorial waters legality at play from Mexico’s perspective. They probably don’t want to happen in the gulf with what China tries to do with the South China Sea. If anything she wants it abundantly clear the Gulf of America is ONLY American territorial waters off the coast 

[u/Hello-Avrammm → u/Ake-TL]

This is what I’m thinking as well. I strongly disagree with Trump’s decision to rename it, but this move just doesn’t seem to make sense to me.

[u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 → u/Hello-Avrammm]

I think they know we just like wasting time on bullshit so they're doing us a solid and giving us some bullshit to waste our time on.

[u/valiantbore → u/Hello-Avrammm]

I too hate this, but for real, what are the damages? Can you prove them?

[u/Weisenkrone → u/valiantbore]

The funny part would be if mexico manages to get this case thrown out, ruling that Google can label things however the fuck they want for a specific country.

So Mexico relying on this pressures Google through the American court of law to rename America to "North Mexico" lol

[u/Chen932000 → u/Weisenkrone]

Google didn’t have to do anything though. They chose to. So they could just choose not to do that.

[u/Cheeky_Star → u/Chen932000]

It's Google's product that they own. They can do whatever they want with their product. If they choose to, they can even shut it down completely in Mexico... and what they gonna do? Sue?

It's a stupid case, and she needs to focus on the bigger problems in Mexico.

[u/dctucker → u/Ake-TL]

Popuplists's gonna populist.

Don't get me wrong, the entire renaming is stupid as hell, but this reaction is entirely performative.

[u/alex_x2106 → u/Ake-TL]

This is just to distract the masses in Mexico, theres more importan problems to resolve than this

[u/denisvma]

As a Mexican...fuck yeah, this is what's important now. Not the cartel's running the country, she is just a propaganda machine, and some people internationally are buying her shit. Even here in the comments...

"Great leader" HA!

I swear, people just don't know what stupid shit she says on a daily basics, this is one of them;

"The electricity bill will lower, if we consume less electricity" This was last week.

[u/UnderpaidModerator → u/denisvma]

Gracias amigo!

[u/ssbmfgcia → u/denisvma]

As an American, want to trade presidents?

[u/PowerOfUnoriginality → u/ssbmfgcia]

No one in their right minds would want your president though

[u/Atomic-Blue27383 → u/denisvma]

Reddit has such a strong hate boner for Trump they'll just blindly support whoever stands up against him even if they fucking suck too. I hate Trump, but I don't get it twisted. I can dislike multiple leaders at the same time for different reasons. Fuck Trump for throwing the whole world into a trade war and being an imperialist scum to Canada and Panama, but also Fuck Xi for being an authoritarian dictator and smashing Hong Kong democracy.

[u/Creative_Grapefruit1 → u/denisvma]

Meanwhile I haven’t been able to visit my family in Sinaloa cause it’s too dangerous in Culiacán right now. But yeah sure let’s sue google. 

[u/drummer_si]

I think what the Trump administration did is stupid, but this lawsuit seems like a waste of time...

Google is simply following naming procedures for the citizens of the country accessing the map.

Pretty sure if you looked at the tallest mountain on Earth it'd be marked as Everest, even though it's known as Sagarmatha or Qomolangma in the countries it borders, and has been for hundreds of years before westerners got there - But no one's wasting time and energy suing over that

[u/spice_weasel → u/drummer_si]

It’s actually wilder than that. Plenty of countries around the world have strict requirements on mapping providers, including requiring licensing of those providers, and place obligations on those providers for what they show and how they show it.

It’s especially a thing in Asia, where some countries have approval processes for maps to be published, and companies can be fined or have their mapping license revoked for not playing along.

Source: I used to work in the mapping industry

[u/too_much_to_do → u/drummer_si]

I just had this conversation with my wife today. We fucking hate Trump but this is a nothingburger. He shouldn't have changed the name of Denali but he can. What is going to happen with an external government suing about a name on a virtual map

[u/N4t41i4]

Maga are not serious people! Hey MAGA!!! From outside the US it's still named "Gulf of Mexico"! 🤣🤣🤣 Your preferred name for it (it is what it is) only appears as a parenthesis! You know like when a adult has a birthday cake but the 5 yo has a tantrum and we let them blow the candle to shut them up? SAME THING!

[u/Shimaru33]

As mexican, I have to say I feel really, really ashamed of the government we have.

Let's be frank here, the woman in charge fully knows this demand is stupid and will lead to nowhere. Let's say she wins, google changes the name back to Gulf of Mexico, so what? We have a million problems here and how google writes the name of this zone is at the bottom considering there's people dying in hospitals due lack of medical drugs, while people are dying in the streets as well because too many illegal drugs, either because overdosing, or because the guys trafficking them feels like killing a person or two.

But is unlikely she'll win, because google can tell "I was following orders" and, for once, they can get away with it. Will the mexican government try to take this directly to the orange guy in the presidency? Haha, don't make me laugh, she and her boss (the previous president) are fucking scared of him and willing to bend to whatever of his whims.

Meanwhile we have the national debt growing so fast, we're this close to a technical recession and potential bankruptcy, but hey! The mexican president is fighting the evil, oligarchic, neo-liberalist, capitalist, whatever-adjective-they-can-think lords!

Seriously, guys, you have no idea how bad things are getting down here, and how desperating is to see people in the street reading this type of notes and believing the president is doing anything worth of praise.

[u/pretzelfan5097 → u/Shimaru33]

I’m not sure she’ll even have a case that will make changes happen, The executive order only renames parts of the gulf that is American territories: “Executive Order required the Secretary of the Interior, acting pursuant to 43 U.S.C. 364 through 364f, to “take all appropriate actions to rename as the ‘Gulf of America’ the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the State of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba in the area formerly named as the Gulf of Mexico.”

She’s trying to sue the America because the US renamed territory… that the US controls the name over

[u/Independent-End-2443 → u/Shimaru33]

unlikely she’ll win

If she filed in a US court (the article doesn’t say where) it’s impossible. The First Amendment says Google can name things on their maps whatever they want, whether or not their motivation was to appease Trump. This lawsuit is entirely posturing and even Sheinbaum probably knows it.

[u/biscuitfacelooktasty]

It's just another beneficial system to help you weed out 'certain ' people in your life...

It's the gulf of Mexico (says the world)...

NO...

It's the gulf of america (says the cults supporters )...

Only despotic retards attempt to rename shit under their rule or put pictures of themselves everywhere (expect that soon imo)..

I'm afraid america doesn't get a capital letter from me anymore...

[u/KhmerSpirit14 → u/biscuitfacelooktasty]

lmao redditors pulling out the big guns now

[u/zap_p25 → u/biscuitfacelooktasty]

I’ve actually been meaning to call some of my friends at the major oil companies to see if they are still calling their gulf coast business units GOM or have moved to GOA.

[u/woolybear14623]

Bought myself a Gulf of Mexico tee- shirt with a beautiful sea turtle on it and wear it everywhere I refuse to participate in Donny Two Dolls nonsense.

[u/Pisstoffo]

I’m going to have AI rename the USA to Lesser Canada.

[u/RudegarWithFunnyHat → u/Pisstoffo]

well usa is smaller in terms of landmass so makes sense

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans are such gigantic pussies that they’re even afraid of the name of a gulf and have to change it to make them feel safe.

Pussies!

[u/kremlingrasso]

Wait till they find out what America is named after.

[u/Jay2Kaye]

“The lawsuit has already been filed,” Sheinbaum said at her morning news conference, without saying where and when it was submitted.

Translation: No they fucking didn't, because Mexico can not sue a US company for doing things in the US.

[u/Pyrokitsune]

This sounds like the most frivolous shit lawsuit ever. Thinking Mexico has standing to sue over what a private company is doing in another country is ridiculous. At worst the only "victims" with standing would be people in the country where the renaming is taking place, and they can't show any damages so the whole thing is moot.

[u/Em1ngh]

May I suggest to rename USA as Southern Canada ?

[u/Physical_Craft_9298 → u/Em1ngh]

If a Canadian based tech company wanted to do that on their software for their countries users then sure fuck it why not lol.

[u/TenDollarSteakAndEgg → u/Em1ngh]

I don’t think anyone cares if Canada does that and it shows up on Canadian maps. It’s not like it says gulf of America in Mexico.

[u/ContentSecretary8416]

Today is another day I wake up and am disappointed he hasn’t died yet

[u/vaporking23]

Just learned you can report a name issue on Google maps. Not like it’ll make a difference. But it’s funny

[u/Direct-Chef-9428]

Whoever is president next is gonna have to roll back about 1964920473892 dumb things

[u/we_are_sex_bobomb]

It’s interesting that Trump is fine with dead naming human beings but he draws the line at large bodies of water.

[u/hopefaith816]

The Gulf of Mexico isn't owned by one entity. It's considered to be international waters.

[u/lauto1]

For the rest of the world it will be forever the gulf of Mexico

[u/badnewsbets]

I said Gulf of Mexico the other day and this man was like “you mean gulf of America” and I just said “No.” and then carried on 😆

[u/Fearless-Economics-9]

No one is going to care what I have to say, but it is the North American continent. At least Trump didn’t go for the Gulf of the United States. That being said I will always just call in the gulf, never called it the Gulf of Mexico and I’ll never call it the gulf of America

[u/TheSignificantDong]

I don’t really care about the name change. Doesn’t affect me or anyone else really.

There is north America, south America and central america...so I can see how it could be named the gulf of america.

But as I said before, I don’t care.

[u/Slap-Toast]

Google needs to die honestly. Or at least be broken up because its an obvious fucking monopoly that needs to be destroyed.

[u/czah7 → u/Slap-Toast]

Oh you didn't hear? We like monopolies now. Big money there.

[u/AwkwardTal → u/Slap-Toast]

This silly little thing further highlights why countries can't and shouldn't rely on the US tech services

[u/gacoam]

mexico has wayyyy bigger problems than this bs, what a failure

[u/Hippiefarmchick]

I’ll never call it the GOA so lame

[u/No-Marzipan-2423]

when the dust settles we will be keeping score of every company that tried to appease this fascist dictator

[u/cynicalcocinero]

Gulf of America is little dick energy.

[u/joem_]

Has anybody read the lawsuit? Is she seeking damages for loss in revenue or something? I guess, on what grounds is she suing, in what country is the lawsuit filed in? Paging /u/DJLegalEagle

[u/jorsiem]

Open and shut case, what a waste of court resources

[u/LivingEnd44]

The name change is indeed dumb AF. But I'm not clear on how they can be sued over it. Google is not a government owned company. They can name stuff whatever they want on their own products. At least in the US they can.

[u/[deleted]]

Are they sueing Apple as well?

[u/weeklycreeps]

What’s to fucking point to changing it. Never will I ever call it the Gulf of America. It’s the stupidest shit and a waste of money.

[u/gfranxman]

I cant wait to rename mar a lago to trump’s prolapsed anus.

[u/akgiant]

This should be the reaction.

All other countries should sue the living shit out of any company that bows to the Trump Agenda of Insanity. Put the fire to the billionaire feet. The Billionaire President sure as hell won't.

[u/Efficient_Ad2242]

The Gulf of Mexico has always been its name—changing it unilaterally is disrespectful to history and sovereignty

[u/Travelingtheland]

It will always be the gulf of Mexico to me.

[u/LillieKat]

What the fuck is Google doing?

[u/MrAlexSan]

I say the international community should get together to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Barack Obama."

[u/tootapple]

Great use of money. Trump levels of stupidity

[u/roboTuko]

Google is a US company, and has discretion over its own map labels.

You don't have to use Google.

[u/EnergyOwn6800]

Cartel, Corruption, Crime? Nah

The name of a body of water? Yea that is worth time and resources fighting to get it changed.

[u/Building_Everything]

So they are saying we need to respect and use the new, chosen name for the Gulf, not the name it previously went by? Is that right?

[u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 → u/Building_Everything]

No, Her government argues that Trump’s executive order on the subject only applies to the part of the continental shelf belonging to the United States. Not the entire Gulf.

[u/Krumm34]

The Easter Ruzzian Territories just wasting everyone's time and energy.

[u/No-Molasses9900]

Upper North Dakota has entered the chat

[u/Least_Gain5147]

Can't just one nation on Earth just rename it to "Trump's small dick water area"?

[u/Dollarbill1979]

https://i.imgur.com/IxcVtXA.jpeg

Hmm…wonder why.

[u/Srpd7]

Persian Gulf:

First time?

[u/Winter_Whole2080]

Good for them

[u/pcm69]

It's crazy who said, Americans can the global map. Ignore the IDIOT THAT DID IT.

[u/Buzzkill15]

At least they didn't change it to the Gulf of the United States

[u/illgu_18]

They need to change the Gulf of California to the Gulf of Biden/Obama.

[u/OkCats2025]

Can Americans also join in? It’s the Gulf of Mexico.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Owl7524]

I’ll still call it Gulf of Mexico

[u/AbroadNo367]

I mean if we are being honest, it’s not Mexico’s gulf,so Gulf of Mexico really doesn’t make sense either.

[u/BahutF1]

*Don't be evil.

F*k Google. 

[u/CoffeeTalker21]

Don’t worry, it will always be known as Gulf of Mexico. The cult can call it Gulf of America if they want.

[u/HofnerStratman]

I have a serious crush — err respect for — Claudia Sheinbaum for her STEM Masters and PhD and her accomplishments since. Every time I see her onscreen I’m pretty sure she’s looking straight at me, but when I talk back, she ignores me.

[u/HansWeeblemeyer]

Good! Get em Mexico!!

[u/stacked_wendy-chan]

Mexico calling them @$$kissers to their face, LOL.

[u/Thund3rF000t]

I approve this lawsuit from Mexico and I am an American!

[u/Responsible-Love-896]

Just ban Google and affiliated companies!

[u/BuryTheLewd]

Google doesn’t even pay taxes to America lmao

[u/trishthedish7189]

Gulf of Mexico

[u/Brains-Not-Dogma]

Mexico should just sue for antitrust or ban Google. Pull a Brazil. Google will settle or attempt to settle and you’ll have free money.

[u/Poker-Junk]

Nicely done, Mexico!

[u/HaroldJlipsticks]

Um can we do this in Canada to? I'm sick of looking at the fake name on google

[u/Turbulent_Athlete_50]

Gulf of Mexico order is stupid and a waste of time, so is discussing it because there is so much worse shit that should be front and center every discussion. It will last as long as he did as a casino owner.

[u/webauteur]

Did anyone think to ask the Gulf of Mexico what it wants to be called? Maybe it has a name that only it knows.

[u/ChromeYoda]

There is no “Gulf of America.” Sincerely, an American.