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We have no issues regrading inclusivity. Most people are very polite and dont have issue. Please (Google, Big Tech) stop pushing your agendas on other countries.
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This is how it starts. What else will they push and censor.
Google is so large that any stance they take, no matter how minuscule, has immense influence.
Case in point, from this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/technology/google-maps-ne...
> For decades, the district south of downtown and alongside San Francisco Bay here was known as either Rincon Hill, South Beach or South of Market. This spring, it was suddenly rebranded on Google Maps to a name few had heard: the East Cut.
> The peculiar moniker immediately spread digitally, from hotel sites to dating apps to Uber, which all use Google’s map data. The name soon spilled over into the physical world, too. Real-estate listings beckoned prospective tenants to the East Cut. And news organizations referred to the vicinity by that term.
My point is, it might seem like a small, inconspicuous change. But at Google-scale, this actually has an impact on the real world, and personally I don't feel confident with Google deciding what words are the correct words.
I am from different country and most of the words are gender neutral which in US pretty big deal like (landlord, guys - which is gender neutral in our country).
Its like pushing your culture on different countries. I don't want to see the Americanisation on our country cultures.
There is no issues of inclusivity in our country. Google is pushing their agenda on different groups, cultures and countries,
This is how it starts.
https://twitter.com/thecitywanderer/status/15161769835495301...
While the value of Facebook is not what is principally questioned (it is rather a question of either trade negotiation or privacy legislation), the value loss of Facebook and Instagram ceasing to run in Europe is what Meta is using as pressure; addressing that isn't stupid.
I am not saying we should not address it. But his argument against privacy with frameworks and saying facebook did good is total irrelevant and make no sense.
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I think the original point was there is no way for Google not to do this. Sometimes cultures have opposing viewpoints which makes a neutral decision impossible. One obvious example is with displaying disputed borders in Google Maps. Any decision there is going to be political. Lots of people are going to be upset with Google for making the wrong decision regardless of which decisions they make, but I think that anger is misplaced. The real problem is Google has the power to make this decision for too many people. Companies like Google are simply too powerful and need to be broken up.
There are second order and third order consequences of having this kind of features.
Google should not push their politics and agenda on other countries and cultures. It affects every other country in different ways.
In future this kind of feature can be used in many ways we dont know.