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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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This kind of innuendo adds nothing of value to the conversation. Either say what you intend to say, or just don't post. The coy "I know something but can't say it" is silly and just sounds like you have a persecution complex.

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> most jews are lunatics

Ironically, this is actually antisemitic.

Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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They did the same thing when there was a war between India and China a while ago. As brutal as it sounds, time and again Apple always loves to be on the side of whichever market is bigger. It's really that simple (business wise). Morally? Perhaps not.

How much do they rely on OSM these days? They were a TomTom shop, that was obviously horrible, then were OSM based. Is that still the case?

Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

#103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This kind of innuendo adds nothing of value to the conversation. Either say what you intend to say, or just don't post. The coy "I know something but can't say it" is silly and just sounds like you have a persecution complex.

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Posts such as yours — "most jews..." — help push forward the narrative that anyone critical of them is antisemitic.

Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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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 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.

Sure, 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.

Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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post #95

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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.

Sure, 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.

This isn't happening on Google Maps though is it? We're just talking about Apple Maps here.

Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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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 Mexico. I'm not sure why they would do this for US users unless the US government requested it.

US government demanded it, not requested it

Yeah, that was another one of the constant mask-off moments. The Party of Free Speech hates free speech.

Re: Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?

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post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Sure, 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.

We 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.
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