When Google Maps changes the geography of the world
When you use Google Maps in the United States, following an executive order from President Donald Trump, the app now displays Gulf of America for American users, while keeping Gulf of Mexico for Mexican users and showing both names everywhere else.
And now Google Maps is preventing users from leaving reviews on that location.
This restriction comes after a wave of criticism and review-bombing, in which hundreds of users gave the app one star to denounce the change.
Google justifies this decision by saying that it regularly applies protections to places subject to floods of off-topic reviews. And yet,
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