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Apple removes Lebanese village names from Apple Maps as Israel attacks

21 pointsby newspaper1today at 6:28 PM4 commentsview on HN

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roxolotltoday at 6:38 PM

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.

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jjtheblunttoday at 6:37 PM

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?

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PotatoAdityatoday at 6:36 PM

Well we know that someone does not want to hurt trump and that someone is most probably tim Cook