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Government of Neon District v. Google
(NOTE: I am not one of those overly religious peoples and i am not one of those people who make up arguments that the person i want to wins, i only made this just for my DFW events canon. Also JSYK i am a Muslim myself if you didn't read my about me. Also no, i do NOT support totalitarian governments.)

The Government of Neon District v. Google was a court case filed by many peoples of the village of Khyalran, Shiguto Prefecture and some members of the Parliament of Neon District against Google LLC and its Google Maps divison in September 2022.

Background
Khyalran (Kazakh: قيالران; ISO 9:1995: K̦ialran) is a municipality in the Shiguto prefecture of Neon District. It has a population of 3,471 and is a stronghold of Muslim culture in Neon District. It was founded in 1927 by Kazakh refugees from the newly-formed Kazakh ASSR. On Google Maps, almost every single municipality and most roads in Neon District have street view coverage beginning in 2009. Khyalran, however, was exempt to this.

Google Maps has almost no street view coverage for Muslim-predominant countries, and to date has only covered the countries of Albania, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Nigeria and Tunisia - the rest are exempt to this and only have unofficial street view. Some countries are acknowledgable to have no street view due to safety reasons such as Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan, some are extremely totalitarian such as Turkmenistan, and some are usually safe, but have no street view at all. Khyalran, despite being one of the safest villages (anything with a population below 10,000 in ND is classified as a 'village') in the country, has no street view, with only photo spheres, 60% of them doing nothing when clicked/dragged upon. Due to possible islamophobia concerns, the village of Khyalran started to file numerous complaints to Google, with almost none of them being answered, except one, which said that they didn't know what the problem was in very informal grammar.

Court case
They knew that Google was hiding something, and some members of parliament also noticed. Eventually, a court case was ordered in late September 2022. The verdict was that the refusal to cover street view on Google Maps for the village of Khyalran due to its religiousness was unconstitutional and TBA[,]. Later, in December 2022, they went there during the winter (snow is also one of Google's big fears when it comes to SV).

Aftermath
The government put a few sanctions on Google after that. The sanctions being that all pre-written (also, i have to mention this, INFORMAL AS F-) "Quick facts" descriptions were automatically reverted to a summary of the municipality on Wikipedia (Khyalran also had neither), and the "[X[,]] [Y, Z And [A]] with [Y]" short descriptions below famous locations in Neon District/Neonia were removed, which was appreciated because they are often hated in the country due to them being "telling you stuff that even foreigners know, also they were extremely annoying"