Mexico issues legal threat to Google

Re:Mexico issues legal threat to Google by montroser on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @09:43PM (#43110491)

Okay, but Google has no legal obligation to anyone here, right? They're just a private company, and they can put whatever they please on their map. They could call it Gulf of Cuba, or Gulf of Poopy Pants, and no one would actually have any legal standing to sue, would they?

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Re:Mexico issues legal threat to Google by nikhilisvalid on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @11:35PM (#43111192)

I figure since it's a country threatening a company, any threats would be by definition legal, since the country can just change the laws to match the threat

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Re:Mexico issues legal threat to Google by edanm on Thursday February 20, 2025 @01:17AM (#43111687)

Wait, that's not at all true. A country could change the laws, but it has to actually do that. Otherwise a country would automatically win every single lawsuit it brought forward, which is not the case.

Part of the very reason we even have laws is to limit the power of what the government can do, and protect private entities from government overreach.

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Re:Mexico issues legal threat to Google by Vilian on Friday February 21, 2025 @01:43AM (#43124696)

That's only happens in a flawed government or democracy, like USA

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Re:Mexico issues legal threat to Google by inetknght on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @09:51PM (#43110536)

> no one would actually have any legal standing to sue, would they?

Countries would get all uppity about doing business in their jurisdiction if that were the case.

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Re:Mexico issues legal threat to Google by thehappypm on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @10:41PM (#43110842)

Google didn’t have a real choice here. DoJ is already threatening to break them up, and an olive branch to Trump is in the shareholder interest

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