alt Hacker NewsThis reminds me a bit of the Gulf of America fiasco from last year where if you changed your location to outside the US it would go back to showing Gulf of Mexico.
I'm not sure why they would do this for US users unless the US government requested it.
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nutjob2 • today at 7:03 PM
> I'm not sure why they would do this for US users unless the US government requested it.
Because the US govt. is petty and vindictive at the moment.
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Google maps has done this forever. A good chunk of countries have disputed territories, and never in human history there has been a "universal" map that everybody agrees on.