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- Google needs to be broken up. The next democratic president will have to break them up into pieces. Future presidents will get to use trump's new powers of doing whatever he wants. With google, there is more than enough bad behavior to legally break them up that will survive the courts.
- Hey Google. Why would I ever choose to use a product administered by such abject cowards?by nmeagent
- This gave me the shove I needed to cancel some longstanding Google subscriptions.
So...thanks, Google, I guess?
by rpeden - We need a constitutional amendment codifying the existence independent agencies like the Federal Reserve, CFPB, social security administration, and USGS.
I wish Google and others weren't telling the emperor how regal his clothes look but it seems reasonable to remain synced with the USGS.
by cosmicgadget - Canadian companies and government websites that use embedded Google Maps are displaying “Lake America”. Not good.by brandon272
- I am Canadian. It is and it will stay Lake Ontario.
I am mad at Google for a lot of things, but this is not one of them. A map should represent the current reality. Google Maps defaults to the user’s local reality, which seems reasonable to me.
I worked at a mapping company and we had similar setups for contested borders. You would get the map that your government accepts. It was not the company’s prerogative to weigh in on those issues.
Remember that if Google Maps has to weigh in on obvious nonsense, it will also need to weigh in on far trickier issues, and at their scale, it might affect the outcome. This sort of legal neutrality seems like a better line of conduct to me.
by nicbou - 2004: "Don't be evil"
2015: "Do the right thing"
2026: "Just press down a little harder on the neck there please, that'll do thank you."
by ModernMech - MapQuest is not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need right now:by seemaze