This 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.
That'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.
this 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?
Genocide 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?
Their 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.
Is 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
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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.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742363
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742680
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...