Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasnt sustainable’
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Some Google Calendar users are angrily calling the company out after noticing that certain events like Pride month are no longer highlighted by default. Black History Month, Indigenous People Month, Jewish Heritage, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Hispanic Heritage have also been removed, according toa Google product expert.One usercalled the move shamefuland said that the platform is being used to capitulate to fascism. Over the last few years, there have beencommentsand media reports complaining about the presence of the notes, but now theyre gone.Google confirmed its made changes to the default Calendar events, but with a different explanation about when and why. Heres Googles explanation of whats going on, provided by spokesperson Madison Cushman Veld:For over a decade weve worked with timeanddate.com to show public holidays and national observances in Google Calendar. Some years ago, the Calendar team started manually adding a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries around the world. We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasnt scalable or sustainable. So in mid-2024 we returned to showing only public holidays and national observances from timeanddate.com globally, while allowing users to manually add other important moments.Timeanddate.com didnt reply to requests for comment.
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