DeGoogle Yourself @lemmy.ml ooli2 @lemm.ee 1d ago

google is not and never was your friend, it is a dictator tool: Degoogle

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This move makes zero sense to me. Why, change it? It's not it's official name or international recognized name so wtf
- Should look up what they want to rename Greenland
- Then you must not be paying much attention, or have an understanding of how capitalism functions (nor of how and why it inevitably decays in to fascism).
- 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.
  
  Edit: undoxxed myself lol
  
  ...looks pretty much the same on bing maps, except they're so committed that they named it twice...
  
  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)
  
  Google maps set to Danish in Denmark is the exact same 🤦‍♂️
  
  But who would want to play golf there
- Curry favor with the trump admin
  
  And it will undoubtedly pay off for them. This is the first brazenly tech oligarchy-driven administration.
  
  Remember who was at Trump’s inauguration? Musk, obviously, but also:
  
  Tim Cook, CEO of Apple
  
  Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon
  
  Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta
  
  Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet
  
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  Trump, a populist president, is flanked by tech billionaires at his inauguration
  
  Tim Apple isn’t your friend, either. No oligarch is.
  
  I was hoping Apple wouldn’t be there considering Tim is openly gay
  
  He donated to Trump right from his pockets. He’s a traitor.
  
  And clarence thomas is black.
  
  Openly gay, but secretly a billionaire.
  
  To be clear, they've changed names in line with official government policy before, not just for Trump's admin.
  
  Yeah but that makes too much sense for emotional & reactional people that don't rely on logic
  
  I get what you’re saying, but the renaming itself is entirely an act of emotion and reaction, with no trace of logic, too. It’s pretty much all we should expect to see from anyone for a while.
  
  If something as ridiculous currys favor and infkuence with Trump the USA is truly coming to an end.
  
  It's not coming to an end as in no longer existing, but it absolutely is as a world power. Maybe it will be for the better in the long run.
  
  I'll remind you of freedom fries.
- I also find the word "America" too latino. wouldn't it be better to change it with an English word?
- 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.
  
  No, there are no smokescreens. Trump is literally this stupid. Don't attribute to maliciousness what can be attributed to narcissism.
  
  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
- Why change it?
  
  White supremacy.
- It could be simply because they can do it, peasant
  
  Thayana good point. I need to remember my place in this world 🤣
- I think I heard that Trump did it because he thinks it gets him around some Biden era rule that he can’t reverse that bans oil drilling in parts of the “Gulf of Mexico.” It’s really stupid. Exxon and Chevron have both “acknowledged” the name change.
  
  Oh that makes sense. Like when muskrat tried to get out of Twitter suis because the name changed.
- pleasing the power, so they remove any law that protect our privacy against google prying eye

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