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Google Calendar Removes Women’s History Month and Other Cultural Events

Google Calendar Removes Women’s History Month and Other Cultural Events

San Francisco – Google has used its popular online services for years to remind users of cultural events, noting its calendar application with cases such as the Black Month of History and Women’s Month.

Last week, some users noticed that the popular application no longer demonstrates these observations, as well as Litany of others, which prompts the Internet from some users Who saw another sign of Google’s turn against more liberal points of view.

But Google stated that he deleted the calendar in the middle of last year for apolitical reasons. Support for hundreds of moments every year manually for different countries “was not scaled or stable,” said Google Secretary in a statement.

The late riots have occurred when Google and other large technological companies seem to respond to conservative complaints that their products and policies are biased. Only last week, Google eliminated his goals, specifying how much diversity he wanted in his workforce, saying that as a federal contractor, he had to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders opposite policies of diversity, justice and inclusion.

The calendar dispute adhered to Google and Apple’s decisions to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico on the Gulf of America in its statements on the map after Trump ordered the name.

Google executives have also said on Wednesday that they will cease to offer variety training programs and update other learning efforts that Dei content, Guardian reports.

Google has worked with TimeandDate.com for more than a decade (a web -site that shows time, date and big holidays in places around the world) to refer to national holidays and national observations such as presidential and Labor Day. A few years ago, the Secretary of Sciences said, the Google calendar team began to celebrate a wide range of cultural moments in the world, and the company was asked to add more events and countries before it decided it was too bad.

Google calendar users have noticed that a reference to the month of Spanish -speaking, the moon of pride, the moon of the Jewish American heritage and the Holocaust Memorial Day disappeared. Google calendar once again shows only observation from TimeandDate.com, including memory day, thanks and Christmas, and users can manually add other moments, added the press. Verge first reported a change in the calendar.

Google’s Calendar apps more than 500 million people from work and personal reasons, and some of them were mocked by Google’s explanation that it was too difficult to keep up with each occasion.

On the social platform X Google “managed to hold Columbus Day”. As a federal holiday, Columbus Day is still automatically affected by Google calendars.

Another user said the change felt an attempt to “rewrite the story” and others perceived the changes as a sign that Google tried to contact Trump.

Google said that in some countries the celebrations marked in its calendar included teachers’ Day. While they left, the company said that it is actively celebrating and promoting cultural moments as a company in other products.

Over the past two weeks, he has marked the black month of history with animation on his search page and the YouTube play list. And he watched the lunar New Year with a search and curatorial collection of movies on Google TV.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.