To: Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google Inc. and President Donald Trump
Google Maps directs users searching for "nigga house" to the WHITE HOUSE
It has come to my attention that a search on the words "Nigga House" directs a Google Maps user to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW DC — otherwise known as the White House.
You, your agents or assigns MUST execute the immediate correction of this situation!
You, your agents or assigns MUST execute the immediate correction of this situation!
Why is this important?
Such egregious programming is not only inflammatory, it is unconscionably unpatriotic, and wholly un-American! Likewise, it constitutes a gross violation of the public trust.
Google Inc. has a duty of care not to mislead the public, nor to allow others to do so under its trademark identity. Likewise, Google Inc. holds a fiduciary duty to its shareholders not to sanction product misuse in a way which could knowingly and directly decrement shareholder value — including brand alignment with a nationally recognized racial pejorative form of the N-word.
Please read a recent Washington Post article for details:
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/05/19/if-you-search-google-maps-for-the-n-word-it-gives-you-the-white-house/?postshare=6821432083232816)
This situation must be corrected immediately, and with all deliberate dispatch due The President of The United States.
Google Inc. has a duty of care not to mislead the public, nor to allow others to do so under its trademark identity. Likewise, Google Inc. holds a fiduciary duty to its shareholders not to sanction product misuse in a way which could knowingly and directly decrement shareholder value — including brand alignment with a nationally recognized racial pejorative form of the N-word.
Please read a recent Washington Post article for details:
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/05/19/if-you-search-google-maps-for-the-n-word-it-gives-you-the-white-house/?postshare=6821432083232816)
This situation must be corrected immediately, and with all deliberate dispatch due The President of The United States.