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google is not and never was your friend, it is a dictator tool: Degoogle (i.redd.it)
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[–] hulfpa@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

This move makes zero sense to me. Why, change it? It's not it's official name or international recognized name so wtf

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

The USA is now part of a list of "sensitive countries" with authoritarian states with their own version of reality. When users in one of the countries on this list visit Google sites, they see that government's version of reality. This is nothing new. Google does it all the time with disputed territories. It's only news because it's the first time the US has an authoritarian government.

Here's how it looks when visiting from a Mexican device with the language set to Australian English while located in Hungary.

1000019054

Edit: undoxxed myself lol

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In Google maps set to Polish while in the UK, it shows

Zatoka Meksykańska (Zatoka Amerykańska)

Which translates to

Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)

[–] Junkers_Klunker@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Google maps set to Danish in Denmark is the exact same 🤦‍♂️

[–] mathiouchio@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

But who would want to play golf there

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 months ago

...looks pretty much the same on bing maps, except they're so committed that they named it twice...

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Distraction from:

  • closing down the Consumer Protection Agency, USAID, and the Education Agency
  • cutting off funding to the universities
  • stealing our student, treasury and health records while taking over the purse
  • not following federal judge's orders
  • building an unregulated concentration camp in Cuba
  • etc.

Edit: That's why trump did it. All tech companies are in his hands now.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, there are no smokescreens. Trump is literally this stupid. Don't attribute to maliciousness what can be attributed to narcissism.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to post this somewhere else:

“The opposition party is the media,” Steve Bannon, who helped run Trump’s 2016 campaign, told PBS Frontline five years ago. “And the media can only — because they’re dumb and they’re lazy — they can only focus on one thing at a time.”

So the solution, per Bannon? Overwhelm them.

“All we have to do is flood the zone,” he said. “Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done, bang, bang, bang. These guys will never — will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity.”

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/07/nx-s1-5289315/trump-week-in-review