• hulfpa@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    This move makes zero sense to me. Why, change it? It’s not it’s official name or international recognized name so wtf

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      The USA is now part of a list of “sensitive countries” with authoritarian states with their own version of reality. When users in one of the countries on this list visit Google sites, they see that government’s version of reality. This is nothing new. Google does it all the time with disputed territories. It’s only news because it’s the first time the US has an authoritarian government.

      Here’s how it looks when visiting from a Mexican device with the language set to Australian English while located in Hungary.

      1000019054

      Edit: undoxxed myself lol

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        In Google maps set to Polish while in the UK, it shows

        Zatoka Meksykańska (Zatoka Amerykańska)

        Which translates to

        Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)

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        11 days ago

        …looks pretty much the same on bing maps, except they’re so committed that they named it twice…

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      12 days ago

      Distraction from:

      • closing down the Consumer Protection Agency, USAID, and the Education Agency
      • cutting off funding to the universities
      • stealing our student, treasury and health records while taking over the purse
      • not following federal judge’s orders
      • building an unregulated concentration camp in Cuba
      • etc.

      Edit: That’s why trump did it. All tech companies are in his hands now.

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      pleasing the power, so they remove any law that protect our privacy against google prying eye

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        11 days ago

        Thayana good point. I need to remember my place in this world 🤣

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      11 days ago

      Then you must not be paying much attention, or have an understanding of how capitalism functions (nor of how and why it inevitably decays in to fascism).