• pfried@reddthat.com
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    1 month ago

    This is common practice. If you look at Google Maps in any other country, the name will not have changed. In the U.S., it shows the legal name within the U.S., which was updated by H.R. 276.

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      1 month ago

      it shows the legal name within the U.S.

      This is highly debatable. The wikipedia entry does not mention that name until halfway down:

      Trump directed federal agencies to adopt the name “Gulf of America” for the waters bounded by the U.S. Some major online map platforms and several U.S.-based media outlets voluntarily adopted the change, but it also stoked controversy, with Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum and others objecting to the declaration

      Comapring this bovine excrement to disputed borders leaves a very bad aftertaste for me.