Google has eliminated occasions reminiscent of Black Historical past Month and Pleasure Month from being listed on the calendar by default.
Different occasions that have been eliminated from the default calendar embrace Jewish Heritage, Indigenous Folks Month, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Hispanic Heritage Month.
Google spokesperson Madison Cushman Veld confirmed the adjustments to TechCrunch, saying that in mid-2024, the app reverted to indicate solely what timeanddate.com exhibits as a public vacation or and nationwide observance.
“Some years in the past, the Calendar staff began manually including a broader set of cultural moments in a large variety of international locations world wide. We acquired suggestions that another occasions and international locations have been lacking — and sustaining a whole bunch of moments manually and constantly globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable,” the spokesperson stated, including that customers can nonetheless “manually add different vital moments,” to their calendars.
Google’s calendar replace information additionally comes only a day after the corporate formally modified the identify of the Gulf of Mexico to “Gulf of America” for customers within the U.S.
The transfer was in accordance with the Trump administration’s government order to vary the identify of the Gulf.
It’s unclear why these adjustments are simply being seen now by some customers nevertheless it comes because the roll-back on range, fairness, and inclusion efforts has taken the highlight. Large Tech corporations have began to finish varied DEI measures. Meta, Google, and Amazon have all introduced a reassessment or elimination of DEI applications, with the latter two adjusting the wording of their 10-Ok filings to take away some or all point out of DEI.
