[Xunjin]

A question, does the executive order (if it was actually signed by the President) have the "law power" to actually oblige Google Maps to make this change?

If not, is this correct following USA law? Also is this matter being questioned in superior Justice instances?

[silverquiet]

Growing up I was told of the fable of "The Emperor's New Clothes" on occasion. I always found it ridiculous, but in the last decade it has been quite relevant. As a kid, I thought it was about the ridiculousness of the Emperor, but I've come around to the understanding that it's about how power creates its own reality.

[Xunjin]

Thank you, that makes a lot of sense.

[dannyw]

Google’s policy of not playing individualised politics is to treat these things consistently and not apply its own judgement.

[pyrale]

> A question, does the executive order (if it was actually signed by the President) have the "law power" to actually oblige Google Maps to make this change?

Coercion isn't required when sycophants are eager to cooperate.

[paulcole]

> If not, is this correct following USA law?

Why wouldn’t it be? What’s stopping them from calling it Gulf of Google if they want to?

Trump isn’t forcing Google to do anything. They use a database for their place names and use what is in that database.

[xattt]

The assumption is there’s a global body that registers place names and regional borders that Google would vet against.

[hiatus]

There is not. See the whole Taiwan thing.