Mexico threatens to sue Google over name change of Gulf of Mexico on US maps

[babylonsister]

Mexico threatens to sue Google over name change of Gulf of Mexico on US maps
By Michael Rios, Billy Stockwell and Karol Suarez, CNN
2 minute read
Updated 1:23 PM EST, Mon February 17, 2025

CNN —

Mexico will take Google to court if maps shown to US-based users continue to label the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America across the entire body of water, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday, arguing that US President Donald Trump’s order to rename it only applies to the part of the continental shelf under US control.

“What Google is doing here is changing the name of the continental shelf of Mexico and Cuba, which has nothing to do with Trump’s decree, which applied only to the US continental shelf,” Sheinbaum told reporters. “We do not agree with this, and the Foreign Minister has sent a new letter addressing the issue.”

Sheinbaum said the renaming is “incorrect,” adding that Trump’s decree “only changed the name within his own continental shelf, which extends 22 nautical miles from the US coast—not the entire Gulf.”

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https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/americas/sheinbaum-google-lawsuit-threat-gulf-of-mexico-intl-latam/index.html

[Joinfortmill]

1. And f*ck you, too, Google.

[Meowmee]

2. Good 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[Jacson6]

3. Google can get out of this dispute between governments by calling it,'The Big Pond'

[GiqueCee]

4. The malicious imbecile...

... currently defiling the Oval Office thrives on chaos and destruction. The misery he is inflicting on Americans – fucking Republicans included – is quickly bringing the nation to its knees, much to the psychotic delight of Vladimir Putin. How many will needlessly die before this evil sonofabitch is stopped and brought to justice?
That drooling moron, John Kennedy (R) LA, used that hoary old adage, "Ya can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs." to justify the obscene damage the GOP is gleefully endorsing. I look forward to the day when Kennedy is one of those very expensive eggs.
Let us spit back at these shitheads Barry Goldwater's famous line: "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice." WE are defending liberty; YOU are defending malicious bigotry. And you. Are. Going. DOWN.

[thinkingagain]

5. So what judge would decide this?

Last edited Tue Feb 18, 2025, 09:52 AM - Edit history (1)

If it’s the International Courts great

If it’s our courts depends on the judge
Then when the supremes get it
Well we know who’s ring they kiss.

[babylonsister]

9. I don't imagine MX would

use US courts, if it even comes to that.

[thinkingagain]

10. I just don't know how that all works

But right I don’t think Mexico
would want to

( by the thanks for still inderstanding my post when I had want in stead of what

I fixed it now
Sorry Blurry eyed and head still this am and typos are doing me in)

[Passages]

6. Excellent response.

[DeepWinter]

7. I wonder if Google deals with this a lot

There's a lot of countries that disagree over river names, lake names, mountain names, even town names. This isn't the slightest bit new, just a bigger headline.

[Ms. Toad]

14. It is new.

Countries have the power over names within their borders. They don't have the power over names outside their borders. The US only had free power to rename the coastline area. But the entire gulf. Co Trump could have renamed that narrow strip - but be had no authority to rename the entire body of water

[twodogsbarking]

8. But trump can't spell Mexico.

[if..fish..had..wings]

11. The Gulf of Mexico and the Shelf of America eom

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Mexico awaits Google response on dispute over Gulf of Mexico before filing lawsuit

This will be a fun lawsuit to watch

Mexico awaits new response from Google on dispute over Gulf of Mexico name before filing lawsuit

— Mybuddysully (@mybuddysully.bsky.social) 2025-02-17T18:24:12.035Z

Link to tweet

https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/mexico-awaits-new-response-google-dispute-gulf-mexico-118899927

Mexico said Monday it's awaiting a new response from Google to its request that the tech company fully restore the name Gulf of Mexico to its Google Maps service before filing a lawsuit.

President Claudia Sheinbaum shared a letter addressed to her government from Cris Turner, Google’s vice president of government affairs and public policy. It says that Google will not change the policy it outlined after U.S. President Donald Trump declared the body of water the Gulf of America.

“We will wait for Google’s response and if not, we will proceed to court,” Sheinbaum said Monday during a morning press briefing.

As it stands, the gulf appears in Google Maps as Gulf of America within the United States, as Gulf of Mexico within Mexico and Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America) elsewhere. Turner in his letter said the company was using Gulf of America to follow “longstanding maps policies impartially and consistently across all regions" and that the company was willing to meet in person with the Mexican government.

“While international treaties and conventions are not intended to regulate how private mapping providers represent geographic features, it is our consistent policy to consult multiple authoritative sources to provide the most up to date and accurate representation of the world," he wrote.

[Emrys]

13. A neat solution: