Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks
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Re: Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks
#2Well we know that someone does not want to hurt trump and that someone is most probably tim Cook
Re: Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks
#3this 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?
Re: Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks
#4This 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.
Re: Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks
#5this 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?
I thought it was TomTom? Anyway, it'll be different sources in different parts of the world.
Re: Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks
#6Is 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
Re: Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks
#7There 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
[2]: https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2021/04/when-savages-roamed-the-e...
[3]: https://onartandaesthetics.com/2016/12/18/the-politics-of-wo...
Re: Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks
#8They are literally 3 holocaust way from wiped out of Google Earth. Why are they acting towards that?
Re: Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks
#9Who controls the present, controls the past. And some people really want to rewrite the past, present, and future.
Re: Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks
#10This 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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