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Seems to me to be a mistake for Apple beause they've now opened themselves up to the liability of editing any part of the world imagery to the benefit of variou

Seems to me to be a mistake for Apple beause they've now opened themselves up to the liability of editing any part of the world imagery to the benefit of various aggrieved parties including foreign governments because they can no longer use the defense "we can't do that, system doesn't work that way, it's automatic, etc etc"

mcphage 6y ago
> they can no longer use the defense "we can't do that, system doesn't work that way, it's automatic, etc etc" Have they ever used that defense for Apple Maps?
- fsckboy 6y ago
  you are not parsing my sentence the way I constructed it. I could say "after your recent psychological testing, you can no longer use an insanity defence". You could say, "I've never used an insanity defence" and I could say "yes but you have had these [incidents] and you might have more, but now you can't use an insanity defence [which might have come in handy]" I was making the point that search engines and social media companies have come under a lot of pressure from different quarters to censor, ban, modify, etc. in the past, and I expect them to in the future, and "mapping" is a database search, and I would think that companies would like to preserve their "hands off" facade rather than throw it away on PR. I was making a good and reasonable point, but HN is neither good, nor reasonable, it is a hypersensitive groupthink mob which [anticipating those who leap to its defense] has an overweening prideful sense of itself.
  - mcphage 6y ago
    You aren't parsing my sentence in the way I constructed it. I could say "has there been any incident in the past in which Apple Maps has used that defense?".
    - fsckboy 6y ago
      my sentence was about the future, not the past. I could say "it is going to rain tomorrow" and you could ask me about the past and ... you would be moving off topic.

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Seems to me to be a mistake for Apple beause they've now opened themselves up to the liability of editing any part of the world imagery to the benefit of variou

by fsckboy 6y ago

mcphage 6y ago
> they can no longer use the defense "we can't do that, system doesn't work that way, it's automatic, etc etc" Have they ever used that defense for Apple Maps?
- fsckboy 6y ago
  you are not parsing my sentence the way I constructed it. I could say "after your recent psychological testing, you can no longer use an insanity defence". You could say, "I've never used an insanity defence" and I could say "yes but you have had these [incidents] and you might have more, but now you can't use an insanity defence [which might have come in handy]" I was making the point that search engines and social media companies have come under a lot of pressure from different quarters to censor, ban, modify, etc. in the past, and I expect them to in the future, and "mapping" is a database search, and I would think that companies would like to preserve their "hands off" facade rather than throw it away on PR. I was making a good and reasonable point, but HN is neither good, nor reasonable, it is a hypersensitive groupthink mob which [anticipating those who leap to its defense] has an overweening prideful sense of itself.
  - mcphage 6y ago
    You aren't parsing my sentence in the way I constructed it. I could say "has there been any incident in the past in which Apple Maps has used that defense?".
    - fsckboy 6y ago
      my sentence was about the future, not the past. I could say "it is going to rain tomorrow" and you could ask me about the past and ... you would be moving off topic.