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Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks
- PotatoAditya 6mo agoWell we know that someone does not want to hurt trump and that someone is most probably tim Cook
- jjtheblunt 6mo agothis is misleading: Apple sources external datasets for maps and continuously imports, which used Scala last i knew, so the question is what upstream map source is removing Lebanese sites?
- comrade1234 6mo agoI thought it was TomTom? Anyway, it'll be different sources in different parts of the world.
- roxolotl 6mo agoThis will probably get flagged but it’s a good example of how any industry as powerful and global as the tech industry is inextricably with the political fates of the world.
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- nairboon 6mo agoAlready happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742363 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742363 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742680 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742680
- jauntywundrkind 6mo agoThat's why it will get flagged. Bother & damnation. I cannot state enough how strongly I think people should have some accountability at least to their flagging. This ability to remain an Anonymous Coward while suppressing such vital stories at the heart of this world and it's tensions is exceedingly fallen. At a minimum there ought be a system to out the flaggers. My gut says flagging should be a public action, period.
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- _trampeltier 6mo agoAlso downvoting should always need a reason
- aerodog 6mo agoIs there a good way to find out how this happened? Who is in charge of Apple Maps? This is a huge offense to the semitic people of Lebanon; dare I say this is a tremendously anti-Semitic offense
- jmyeet 6mo agoThere is a long history of what goes on a map being controversial. Changing a map or leaving it alone is a position either way. One such area is the disputed region of Kashmir, which has been an issue for decade, as recently as February 2026 [1]. Go back further and you have official maps depicting "savagery" [2]. Even the use of the Mercator projection perpetuates biases. Modern maps aren't as removed from these biases as one might think [3]. [1]: https://www.dawn.com/news/1972510 https://www.dawn.com/news/1972510 [2]: https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2021/04/when-savages-roamed-the-earth-maps-perpetuating-bias-and-bigotry-in-the-19th-century/ https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2021/04/when-savages-roamed-the-e... [3]: https://onartandaesthetics.com/2016/12/18/the-politics-of-world-maps/ https://onartandaesthetics.com/2016/12/18/the-politics-of-wo...
- tuokgr6ojseijc 6mo agoThey are literally 3 holocaust way from wiped out of Google Earth. Why are they acting towards that?
- gostsamo 6mo agoWho controls the present, controls the past. And some people really want to rewrite the past, present, and future.
- antibull 6mo agoGenocide only matters when it happens to that one group of people. If that one group is committing the genocide then it's ok. How did we end up here in 2026?
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- bastard_op 6mo agoTim Apple always does what is right! Next he'll give an Apple Peace Prize to Bibi.
- cjbenedikt 6mo agoPromised by whom exactly? Let's try stone age period for verification next.
- bypdx 6mo agoTheir god sent them out of Palestine a long time ago and has not said anything to permit them back. Any person or nation encouraging them to move back into Palestine is denying their god.