Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps | Common Dreams
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Mexican President urges Google to reconsider renaming the Gulf of Mexico to 'Gulf of America' on its maps feature at Trump's demand, and threatens legal action.

The president of Mexico on Thursday expressed hope that Google “reconsiders” its decision to change its online maps to reflect U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that he has the authority to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico.

Shortly after taking office, Trump issued an executive order announcing he was changing the name of the body of water to the Gulf of America.

For U.S. users of Google Maps, the gulf was listed as the Gulf of America as of Thursday. Google, whose CEO attended Trump’s inauguration along with other tech moguls, said last month it has “a long-standing practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.”

But Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum warned Thursday that her government “will file a civil suit” against Google if it does not revert back to labeling the international body of water the Gulf of Mexico.

  • knightly the SneptaurEnglish
    51·
    7 days ago

    Did you not read the page you linked?

    That org was “established in its present form by Public Law in 1947 to maintain uniform geographic name usage throughout the Federal Government.”

    It’s a standards-setting org that resolves differences between other agencies of the government when there is disagreement about a place name, it isn’t entitled to rename things everyone was already in agreement about, lol~

    • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
      13·
      7 days ago

      Yes, it sets the official name of each place. That’s what everyone here is talking about.

      • knightly the SneptaurEnglish
        51·
        7 days ago

        Again, read the page you linked:

        President Benjamin Harrison signed an Executive Order establishing the BGN and giving it authority to resolve unsettled geographic names questions.

        Key word: “unsettled”