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May be an unpopular opinion, but Google is right! It may also be that I’ve only read the headlines and am totally off-base, but ….
It’s not google’s business to decide what to call things, nor would they want any controversies attached to it. Every country and internationally has data with what they want to call things. It’s their right to do so, even snowflake countries trying to erase cultures and history. It’s in Google’s best interest to implement exactly what those official data sources call things, presumably those have gone through whatever due process exists, without regard to what they think is right or wrong. If there’s evidence of the country being a special snowflake, or launching a flurry of changes, it’s in Googles interest to implement those changes more quickly, but NOT to take matters into their own hands
Your comment reminded me of how Hollywood would remove Jewish actors from their films because they didn't want to stand up to the nazis.
Hollywood's decision to accommodate Nazi demands during the 1930s was driven by economic interests, particularly the desire to maintain access to Germany, then a significant film market. Studios made concessions, such as removing Jewish characters and avoiding anti-Nazi themes, to avoid being banned in Germany[1][3][6]. Despite many Jewish studio heads, profit motives often outweighed moral considerations[3][4]. However, this collaboration remains controversial, as it involved suppressing anti-Nazi content and sidelining Jewish actors during a time of rising persecution[6][8].
Citations: [1] The Chilling History of How Hollywood Helped Hitler (Exclusive) https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/how-hollywood-helped-hitler-595684/ [2] When the Nazis Seized Power, This Jewish Actor Took on the Role ... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-nazis-seized-power-this-jewish-actor-took-on-role-life-180985228/ [3] Did Hollywood studios help the Nazis? - BBC https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20130930-did-hollywood-help-the-nazis [4] The Myth of Jewish Hollywood's Collaboration With the Nazis https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/jewish-hollywood-collaboration [5] Fleeing the Nazis for a haven in Hollywood - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jan-03-et-hitlerhollywood3-story.html [6] [PDF] The Collaboration of American Movie Studios with Nazi Germany By ... https://escholarship.org/content/qt97m7w0gs/qt97m7w0gs_noSplash_a6f7eff117f760f718ff016c0ab5c1bc.pdf [7] The Emigration of Filmmakers Under National-Socialism | filmportal.de https://www.filmportal.de/en/topic/the-emigration-of-filmmakers-under-national-socialism [8] Hitler's Willing Hollywood Collaborators - The Forward https://forward.com/culture/186509/hitlers-willing-hollywood-collaborators/ [9] Jews who fled the Nazis to make films in Hollywood https://jweekly.com/2014/11/27/jews-who-fled-the-nazis-to-make-films-in-hollywood/ [10] Jews in American cinema - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews_in_the_history_of_American_film
This is far different than choosing to filter themselves for appeasement. This is deciding to work with international standards and laws, and to stick with it as the best course even if they have an opinion. This is a business of publishing facts and Google should not be the arbiter of the facts
I agree, I don’t want Google deciding place names for anything. We already have processes and organizations that do that. My government may be getting more dysfunctional every day but it is their role
While I oppose these naming changes out of personal spite , oppose that it didn’t respect locals, oppose that it overrode Congress, oppose that it was done outside the law, it would be even worse if Google were part of the decision process. For better or worse there is a legal name and Google should just use whatever it is
This reminds of how when the unicode consortium had to add flag emojis, instead of opening the can of worms on what countries are independent or not, they just noped out of it and let the implementers decide which combinations of regional indicator letters render as country flags.
That's very interesting. Do you know where I could learn more about that decision? I tried searching but its 2025 and any phrases I could think of just returned websites offering nearly identical collections of flag emojis...
From Wikipedia:
I don't think you'll be able to find a source that specifically says "yeah, they did this to avoid having to make a decision about which countries are important/independent enough to have flags", but like... why else would they go with this more complicated system over just defining separate codepoints for each flag?
This is probably a good starting point.
Edit: I found this by digging through the emoji Wikipedia page sources
Thank you!
Is that why there are some flag emoji (like the Taiwan/ROC flag) that don't render on certain devices?