I feel like the people getting mad at map apps for changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico for them are getting mad at the wrong thing. It's like when people would get mad at me about Python 3 during the 2->3 transition. It was actually never about me or Python 3, but about the person's manager not letting them migrate.
I get why people are mad about the rename, but get mad at the person who made the rename official for America geography and not the people following the US standard.
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in reply to Brett Cannon • • •the POTUS has no right nor jurisdiction to change geographical names. if US Congress wanted to change the name, it would have to enter into diplomatic negotiations with Mexico and all the countries bordering the gulf. that means, entering negotiations with the Organización de Estados Americanos and ultimately the United Nations.
so, Google didn’t have to comply with the whims of a wannabe dictator.
it is absolutely right for people to attack Google for supporting this coup
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in reply to Brett Cannon • •@Brett Cannon There is no reason to treat this as a dichotomy. It is completely okay to be upset at both the POTUS and the organizations that followed his whim. There was nothing authoritatively requiring them to change the name on their services.
note: There are still those clinging to Python2 even after EOL, so some of them may have been the victim of an authority not letting them migrate though some of them just wanted to be contrary.