Google Calendar has removed cultural celebrations such as Black History Month, Women's History Month and Pride Month as President Trump cracks down on diversity, equity and comprehensive policies.
The calendar erased the Indigenous People's Month, the Jewish Heritage Month, the Holocaust Memory Day, and Hispanic Heritage Month from the pages as before. Reported by Verge.
Google Users Attacked calendar changesand accused high-tech companies of trying to curry favor with Trump.
“Calendars were used to surrender to fascism,” one user wrote on Google's calendar help page. “This is a shame. Please bring back the dates on these calendars!!!”
“These bootlickers quickly showed us who they were,” another user wrote on the help page. “I thought I was the only one who noticed it! Let's spread the word! Google is a Nazi sympathizer.”
It appears that Google Calendar users noticed the change when they began posting comments on the website's help page earlier this month.
Google will only include national compliance classified by Timeanddate.com when it “standardizes” calendars that “standardizes” last year's holidays, according to a statement posted on its help page by Google Product experts. He said he deleted it when he “standardized” the calendar.
“Several years ago, the calendar team began manually adding broader cultural moments in many countries around the world,” a Google spokesperson posted in a statement.
“We received feedback from several other events and countries where we went missing. Maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally was not scalable or sustainable,” spokesman said. added.
Those who wish to include additional holidays can subscribe to third-party calendars, import calendar events, or create their own events.
timeanddate.com did not respond immediately to requests for comment.
Over the past few years, major US companies have supported diversity policies. This is a trend that has been swift since Trump took office and signed an executive order banning DEI programs across the federal level.
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Earlier this month, Google said it was considering a recent court decision and Trump's executive order aimed at killing diversity employment targets and curbing DEI.
Google has shown new loyalty to Trump's policies in its second term, with CEO Sundar Pichai joining other influential technology executives such as Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos. I attended the president's inauguration.
On Monday, Google officially switched the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, the maps app. Trump's favorite titles are only seen by people searching in the US.
The company also said it would return to using Mount McKinley rather than Denali for Alaska mountains with each Trump executive order.
