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This goes beyond direct action by individuals, it’s completely obvious what’s happening and it happens because the US political system has been captured.
Captured by whom?
Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
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Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
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It is straightforward to visit any other online mapping service and see many villages labeled there. Bing: https://www.bing.com/maps?cp=33.185932%7E35.321974&lvl=11.9&... Google: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.1649913,35.2506666,11.55z OSM: https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/#map=11/33.1554/35.2890
Removed means they were there before which means comparison to other maps means nothing. It's possible Apple never had them in the first place. It's completely unverifiable with the link or your links.
Just check literally any Lebanese social media site?
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#95This 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.
Google 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.
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This is quite normal for politics-related news on HN. Many people flag them and they disappear from the FP. Whatever contentious issue you take, there always people who will dislike an even or how it's presented and will flag the submission.
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This saddens me as well, because that's the type of thing that happens every day where I live, but... > I don’t understand why it is allowed to continue. The answer is even sadder. It's even worse. And it is as follows: because there's not enough people who are taking action, and from those taking action there's not enough people in power to change something significantly. At least that's how I see it. And... I can't…
There's also a huge cost for taking action about this especially in the US. You can easily get thrown out of school, have your career destroyed or be deported.
This is mostly a US thing. Netanyahu and Putin are two war criminals according to International Court of Justice. Although Trump threatened the ICJ, this doesn't change that basic fact.