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.
Ultimately Hitler’s Birthday will somehow become ‘sustainable’ for these corporate bootlickers.
Hitlers Birthday? Don’t you mean 420 Blaze It day?
But they can put a new logo doodle for a different event every day of the year, over multiple years?
Exabytes of ad relevant data is one thing, but literally tens of different calendar events? How are they supposed to sustain that as part of their business model?
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.
…I am sorry. This will be forgotten in instant. Not because people forgive easily, but because these companies offer what for most people is part of their lifestyle.
You’re probably right, but I hope you’re wrong.
If you’re wrong it’ll mean a lot more people moving to OSS and Fediverse networks, which would be a very positive outcome
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…
Ohhh black history month!
I was thinking BMarton MLuther MKing! But now that makes more sense!
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.
