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This is pathetic and reeks of insecurity big time. Hope that this debacle improves your QoL, Americans.
Eh I'm on the opposite side, despite being a massive lefty. Why would an american company not follow an American dictate just for America? (It's still called the Gulf of Mexico on Google in every other country) It sets a wild precedent where private businesses refuse to follow the fairly inconsequential requests of their government.
The Mexican president asked for the US to be called Mexico Americana or something like that. I haven't seen if google complied yet, but if they don't, would you support them not?
Well google is a US country, so google bending the knee to Trump is fairly expected.
But sure, if NZ wants to call itself Aotearoa, google should change that. Is Mexico wants to rename it to Mexico Americana, go for it.
If the Mexican people take Umbridge with their government renaming their local maps, take it up with the government, not the map drawers.