The Silicon Valley giant said it made the change last year because it was difficult to keep up with every occasion, but some users questioned the decision.

Google Calendar users noticed that references to Hispanic Heritage Month, Pride Month, Jewish American Heritage Month and Holocaust Remembrance Day had all disappeared.

The Calendar controversy followed decisions by Google and Apple to change the Gulf of Mexico’s name to Gulf of America in their map applications after Mr. Trump ordered the name change.

  • pivot_root@lemmy.world
    49·
    6 days ago

    A friendly reminder: corporations are not your friends. Everything they do is in effort of chasing profits, and they’ll bend over and look pretty for whichever party is in power.

    This is just another unfortunate reminder that respect and equity are not factors in their decisions.