{"id":30027,"date":"2012-05-18T19:33:54","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T23:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=30027"},"modified":"2012-05-18T19:33:54","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T23:33:54","slug":"iran-the-little-cry-babies-to-sue-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30027","title":{"rendered":"Iran, the little cry babies, to sue Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TPM sends a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-18108246\">BBC<\/a> which reports that the country of Iran is suing the company, Google because on Google Maps, they didn&#8217;t label the body of water between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula as the Persian Gulf. Instead, Google just left it blank.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a rare show of unity, authorities and the opposition jointly condemned the decision. Thousands of Iranians vented their anger on blogs and in online forums.<\/p>\n<p>Google rejected the criticism, saying the body of water had not been labelled from the start.<\/p>\n<p>A Google spokesperson told the BBC it did not name every place in the world although he was unable to provide an example of a similar case of a missing landmark.<\/p>\n<p>Interactive world map Google Earth, meanwhile, describes the waterway both as Persian Gulf and Arabian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has repeatedly criticised [sic] countries and organisations [sic] that do not use the term Persian Gulf. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the article, there are several examples of the Iranians pouting that the Gulf isn&#8217;t called &#8220;Persian&#8221; by everyone. Good for them focusing on the important stuff between hanging gays,  stoning rape victims and seeding the world with IEDs and EFPs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TPM sends a link to BBC which reports that the country of Iran is suing the &hellip; <a title=\"Iran, the little cry babies, to sue Google\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=30027\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran, the little cry babies, to sue Google<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}