"what to teach young children" certainly seems to be an issue, an issue where politicians are sheepishly pretending to do one thing while actually doing another through ambiguity.
And as far as politics goes this is certainly also fairly common position to hear from prominent people. IDK what this response is supposed to mean exactly but I certainly have people in my life that think that being "trans" isn't "real". "LatinX"), access to sex-segregated spaces, participation in sex-segregated sports, what to teach young children, etc. > The political debate is about language changes (e.g. There are a significant number of people that believe that "being" trans is actually not something of substance, that it is "all made up". > The idea of the "existence" of a trans person is subject to debate. 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. My point is, it might seem like a small, inconspicuous change. And news organizations referred to the vicinity by that term. Real-estate listings beckoned prospective tenants to the East Cut. The name soon spilled over into the physical world, too.
> The peculiar moniker immediately spread digitally, from hotel sites to dating apps to Uber, which all use Google’s map data. This spring, it was suddenly rebranded on Google Maps to a name few had heard: the East Cut. > 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. Google is so large that any stance they take, no matter how minuscule, has immense influence. I think there's a valid concern with this a concern which is not necessarily distilled down to "big brother" or "corporate overlords".