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This reminds me a bit of the Gulf of America fiasco from last year where if you changed your location to outside the US it would go back to showing Gulf of Mexi
by aduffy 7mo ago
This reminds me a bit of the Gulf of America fiasco from last year where if you changed your location to outside the US it would go back to showing Gulf of Mexico.
I'm not sure why they would do this for US users unless the US government requested it.
- bdangubic 7mo agoUS government demanded it, not requested it
- microtonal 7mo agoAssociated Press was even banned from the White House for calling it the Gulf of Mexico: https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/announcements/ap-statement-on-oval-office-access/ https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/announcements/ap-st...
- solid_fuel 7mo agoYeah, that was another one of the constant mask-off moments. The Party of Free Speech hates free speech.
- nutjob2 7mo ago> I'm not sure why they would do this for US users unless the US government requested it. Because the US govt. is petty and vindictive at the moment.
- Ylpertnodi 7mo ago> Because the US govt. is petty and vindictive at the moment. And has been for many, many years.
- redox99 7mo agoGoogle maps has done this forever. A good chunk of countries have disputed territories, and never in human history there has been a "universal" map that everybody agrees on.
- aduffy 7mo agoSure, but I'm in the US, which is not a party to the conflict between Israel and Lebanon. To my knowledge the US continues to recognize Lebanon as a sovereign country.
- DashAnimal 7mo agoThis isn't happening on Google Maps though is it? We're just talking about Apple Maps here.
- cma 7mo agoWe had to build a very expensive and risky pier to get aid into to Gaza instead of just sending it through our ally Israel to be delivered over the ground. There's something different than a normal ally relationship.
- xg15 7mo agoA very expensive and risky pier that still just delivered the aid to an IDF base inside Gaza and not to Gazans (or aid orgs) directly. Based on a plan from an Israeli think tank...
- flyinglizard 7mo agoBlame the Israeli public for not wanting to feed their enemy.
- xg15 7mo agoAnd not letting themselves or anyone else feed them either, huh?
- cineticdaffodil 7mo agoIt was so bad they had to post pictures of starving Syrians.
- tpm 7mo ago
- concinds 7mo agoThis is worldwide, not just for US users. And most towns seem missing, including in areas Israel has never bombed. It keeps blowing me away how brain dead the internet can be.