{"id":22098,"date":"2025-02-12T21:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T22:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22098"},"modified":"2025-02-12T22:33:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T22:33:54","slug":"google-calendar-removes-a-number-of-cultural-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22098","title":{"rendered":"Google Calendar Removes a Number of Cultural Events"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Silicon Valley giant said it made the change last year because it was difficult to keep up with every occasion, but some users questioned the decision.<\/p>\n

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Google has for years used its popular online services to remind users about cultural events, marking its calendar app with occasions such as Black History Month and Women\u2019s History Month.<\/p>\n

Last week, some users noticed that the popular app was no longer displaying those observances, as well as a litany of others, prompting an online backlash from some users who saw another sign of Google turning against more liberal viewpoints.<\/p>\n

But Google said it removed the calendar observances in the middle of last year for apolitical reasons. Maintaining hundreds of moments manually each year for various countries \u201cwasn\u2019t scalable or sustainable,\u201d a Google spokeswoman said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The belated uproar happened as Google and other big technology companies have appeared to be reacting to conservative complaints that their products and policies are biased. Just last week, Google eliminated its goals specifying how much diversity it wanted in its work force, saying that as a federal contractor, it had to comply with President Trump\u2019s executive orders opposing diversity, equity and inclusion policies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Calendar controversy followed decisions by Google and Apple to change the Gulf of Mexico\u2019s name to Gulf of America in their map applications after Mr. Trump ordered the name change.<\/p>\n

Google executives also said on Wednesday that they would stop offering diversity training programs and update other training efforts that have D.E.I. content, The Guardian reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Silicon Valley giant said it made the change last year because it was difficult to keep up with every occasion, but some users questioned the decision.Google has for years used its popular online services to remind users about cultural events, marking its calendar app with occasions such as Black History Month and Women\u2019s History Month.Last week, some users noticed that the popular app was no longer displaying those observances, as well as a litany of others, prompting an online backlash from some users who saw another sign of Google turning against more liberal viewpoints.But Google said it removed the calendar observances in the middle of last year for apolitical reasons. Maintaining hundreds of moments manually each year for various countries \u201cwasn\u2019t scalable or sustainable,\u201d a Google spokeswoman said in a statement.The belated uproar happened as Google and other big technology companies have appeared to be reacting to conservative complaints that their products and policies are biased. Just last week, Google eliminated its goals specifying how much diversity it wanted in its work force, saying that as a federal contractor, it had to comply with President Trump\u2019s executive orders opposing diversity, equity and inclusion policies.The Calendar controversy followed decisions by Google and Apple to change the Gulf of Mexico\u2019s name to Gulf of America in their map applications after Mr. Trump ordered the name change.Google executives also said on Wednesday that they would stop offering diversity training programs and update other training efforts that have D.E.I. content, The Guardian reported.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22100,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22101,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22098\/revisions\/22101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}