The naysayers might have jumped on the wrong legal bandwagon.
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Trump requests Lake Ontario renamed, Apple obliges, public objects
The sequence begins with a request: Trump asks Apple Maps to rename Lake Ontario. Apple complies, changing the lake’s name at his behest. The twist is what follows—a public reaction not to the policy, but to the map itself. With the name changed, the crowd finds its limit, and the backlash arrives. Renaming a lake isn’t the usual flashpoint for political outrage, but here, it’s what tips the scales. The map carries weight, and the public response carries consequence; the moment the lake changes, the crowd changes too. The lines on the screen are the lines in the sand.
“You can rewrite the map, but you can't rewrite the crowd. Trump gets his name on the lake, and that's the moment folks decide maybe they've had enough.”
“There's nothing wrong with honoring a presidential request, especially one as harmless as changing a name on a map. If the public disagrees, that's democracy in action. Did I say 'harmless'? I meant 'symbolic.'”
The receipts
Apple on Tuesday changed the name of Lake Ontario on the web version of its Maps app to "Lake America," after President Trump directly contacted the tech giant for an update in accordance with his recent executive order. The company said U.S. users will now find "Lake America" on their maps, following the change in...
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