Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’
Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’
Some users are angry that some events have been removed.
Summary
Google Calendar users are upset after noticing that events like Pride Month, Black History Month, Indigenous People Month, Jewish Heritage, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Hispanic Heritage were removed from default settings.
Google confirmed the change, stating that maintaining a manually curated list of cultural observances worldwide was "not scalable or sustainable."
Instead, Google has reverted to only displaying public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com, with users now responsible for adding other events manually.
Good to have the gutless kowtowing reported on.
I'm honestly a little surprised at how quickly the big tech corps have not just cosied-up to Trump and Elon, but really done their best to pledge fealty and become part of the inner circle. When the winds change in the future I very much doubt liberals and leftists will ever forget that these big 'Silicon valley liberals' largely turned out to be a deception. The trust will be gone forever.
Glad I already bailed on google services already.
Oh no, they can track hundreds of millions of devices, profile and serve ads to them instantly, but calendars... Grrr!
/s
Capitulating to fascists is never a good look.
Ultimately Hitler’s Birthday will somehow become ‘sustainable’ for these corporate bootlickers.
Hitlers Birthday? Don't you mean 420 Blaze It day?
Til google can't maintain a list...
Today??
But they can put a new logo doodle for a different event every day of the year, over multiple years?
I wonder if they left MLK day on the calendar?
It's a federal holiday, so yes.
...for now.
Prob rename to trump inauguration day..
Unpopular opinion maybe, but I’m ok with this. It’s less clutter if all you want is to see public holidays, and it’s easy enough to install calendars that show other events.
Unpopular opinion maybe, but I’m ok with this. It’s less clutter if all you want is to see public holidays, and it’s easy enough to install calendars that show other events.
Well it's not unpopular so to speak... had they never included them that would be one thing... Hell had they removed them 2 years ago that would have been a fine decision. On the other hand removing them right now... it's quite blatently obvious the motivation isn't decluttering. It's about making sure the racists in power don't have to look at anything that might make them unhappy.
Be that as it may, the real motivation for this change likely has nothing to with "less clutter" and more with pandering to the MAGA crowd.
Same here. I've never been fond of the proliferation of these "think about <minority> for a moment!" holidays. They're the main thing that comes to mind when I think of what's "performative."
Better performative than being able to ignore completely.