The "OMG Apple and Google renamed Lake Ontario in their map apps" discussion is barking at the wrong tree, in my opinion. It's a childish presidential order from a bully. I mainly shrug. This is not a hill I care for and even less am willing to die on. Let's fight the cause, not the symptoms! #UnpopularOpinion I guess.

@jwildeboer the surprising thing to me is that people are expecting Google and Apple to be ethically driven, I suppose.

@benjamineskola It is not so much an ethical question. It's the simpler question of following laws and regulations and what risks and liability issues are caused when not following them.

@jwildeboer Sure. But I think people are expecting these companies to weigh ethical factors higher — resist threats etc because it would be moral. So when they’re driven only by amoral business calculations, people are disappointed.

@benjamineskola @jwildeboer It is easy to be critical of the U.S.-based companies, but there are a lot of questionable rules and regulations happening also in the EU. Regardless of the region, it is all about balancing the risk and reward. If a company would resist against changes required by the official government regulations, every new upcoming regulation change would increase the legal cost of resisting future changes. It starts to get expensive eventually, even for a multinational corporation. (That is why they limit visibility of map changes to individual countries, as there are a lot more country-specific map changes around the world, than just one lake name change.)