Do you have any heat or strong opinions about the Gulf of Mexico? Well, you will have to find another place other than Google Maps to share them, because the platform is currently restricting users to leave comments or reviews in the Gulf, such as seen by the BBCAfter Google’s decision to play along with the Trump administration decision to change the name of the body of the water to the Gulf of America.
The Gulf current has a 4.5 -star rating on Google Maps with almost 7,000 revisions, which is a fairly strong support of the beautiful bay. But directly under the review score there is a notification that says that “the publication is currently disabled.” Google explains: “It is more likely that some types of places receive publications, such as reviews, which violate Google policies. To avoid this, Google has turned off the publication. “
Now, the Gulf itself does not seem so controversial among the reviewers, who describe it as “One of the most beautiful places on Earth“A fishermen paradise“And”Best Gulfo of all time. “But if he classifies the reviews for more recent, he will notice that no comments have been left in the Gulf of Mexico for a month. That seems to be due to the fact that Google has been in charge of cleaning the revisions of a star that users began after leaving after that the company changed the bay label to the “Gulf de América” according to the executive order of President Trump.
Users definitely left negative reviews once the name change entered into force. Can Find examples In choosing their social election platform, and there are threads that encourage people to express their disgust for change In Reddit. But those began to clean each other quite quickly, and now Google has decided that it is better to prevent new criticism from rising. The company also has turn off the ability to suggest an edition To the place, presumably because people suggested that the name of the Gulf of Mexico change.
Google can reasonably affirm that all this fiasco is just a matter of protocol, from the change of name to the management of the flood of a star reviews. Google extracts its location information from the Geographic Name Information System (GNIS), so once the name change entered into force there at the request of Trump’s Pensroke, it appeared on Google Maps. And although the negative review protest is a useful way for users to express their disgust, Google regularly restricts publications in locations that are flooded with activity.
So yes, everything is just the company of the company in action. And sometimes the company’s policy causes you to, as a corporate entity, is covered by the whims of an autocrat. Then it goes.