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Google apologizes after Berlin street is accidentally renamed after Adolf Hitler on its maps service
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 20:48 EST, 10 January 2014 | Lizzie Edmonds

Posted on 01/11/2014 9:43:39 AM PST by Olog-hai

Google has apologized after its mapping service renamed a road in Berlin after Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

The intersection, usually called Theodor-Heuss-Platz, temporarily regained its Nazi-era name—Adolf-Hitler-Platz.

The area carried Hitler’s name after he came to power in 1933 until the end of the Second World War. …

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: adolfhitlerplatz; berlin; germany; google; theodorheussplatz

1 posted on 01/11/2014 9:43:39 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Just more wishful thinking by the libs.


2 posted on 01/11/2014 9:45:49 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: Olog-hai

There’s a lot of these kind of commie libs antics going on these days and it isn’t “accidental”.


3 posted on 01/11/2014 9:49:59 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If you like your ObamaCare, you can keep your ObamaCare. I'll pass. PERIOD!)
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To: Olog-hai
"You, sir, are a drunken lout with a syphilitic mistress, bastards sired on every continent, a gambling problem, and you are also fat and ugly!"

"How dare you insult me!"

"Insult you? Me?? I merely mis-spoke. A mere slip of the tongue ... it could happen to anyone."

4 posted on 01/11/2014 9:50:01 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yeah, “whoops”.


5 posted on 01/11/2014 9:50:33 AM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: Olog-hai

I wonder if leftist city planners have named streets after Margaret Sanger.


6 posted on 01/11/2014 9:57:01 AM PST by Track9 (hey Kalid.. kalid.. bang you're dead)
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To: Olog-hai

Why does anyone apologize for an automatic action performed by a mindless set of programs acting on streams of data?

Why didn’t they just call it a glitch and avoid trouble altogether?


7 posted on 01/11/2014 10:48:45 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: Olog-hai
This is what it looked like:

Somebody edited it, and someone from Google approved the edit:

Oops!

8 posted on 01/11/2014 11:24:48 AM PST by cartan
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To: cartan
The guy who sent in the Edit request to Google


9 posted on 01/11/2014 11:28:28 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai

Of course Karl-Marx-Allee in Berlin is still there.


10 posted on 01/11/2014 11:31:25 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
The guy who approved the edit:


11 posted on 01/11/2014 11:51:23 AM PST by cartan
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