Following President Trump's declarations about changes to the map, Google employees were given the highest level of urgency to reclassify the U.S.

Summary

Google has reclassified the U.S. as a “sensitive country” following Trump’s announcement to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” and Mount Denali as Mount McKinley.

The designation, typically reserved for nations with border disputes or strict governments, reflects the growing challenges tech companies face under Trump’s second term.

Google Maps has prioritized updating these name changes, treating them similarly to disputed regions like the Persian Gulf.

The reclassification may impact how Google handles U.S. geographic labels moving forward.

  • BlameThePeacockEnglish
    69·
    2 days ago

    It only does it in the country, as a Canadian I still see gulf of Mexico.

    That’s the whole point of this sensitive designation

    • takeda@lemm.eeEnglish
      35·
      2 days ago

      I am in the US and still see Gulf of Mexico.

      I would actually love if for the next 4 years they just got busy only remaining places on map and nothing else.

      Sadly much more damaging stuff is happening and this is just another distraction.

      • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
        30·
        2 days ago

        Renaming shit on maps is part of erasing that a people ever existed there at all. The towns in Poland my family came from aren’t on any maps any more. Their names exist only in stories passed down to me, and to a few people who also received them still living where those towns used to be. That I didn’t even know for 33 years where to find the towns in my great great grandmother’s stories was exactly the aim of the ethnic cleansing that brought her here.

        I get that it seems silly and ridiculous and like a big distraction to a lot of people, and on some level, yes, that is the point of renaming shit on maps when you’re just going to do the killings anyway, but also… The point is the killings, and when a big authoritarian dickhead shows up saying he wants to rename shit on a map? Freak the fuck out. This dude plans to kill.

        • kent_ehEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Republicans are already proposing removing thw term limit on presidents, whole somehow claiming that won’t allow Obama to run again.