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jjtheblunt: 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?

comrade1234: I thought it was TomTom? Anyway, it'll be different sources in different parts of the world.

gostsamo: Who controls the present, controls the past. And some people really want to rewrite the past, present, and future.

roxolotl: 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.

nairboon: Already happened:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742363https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742680

mdni007: Those villages were promised to Israeli's 3000 years ago. So it's just Apple correcting their mistake. It is antisemitic to think otherwise. I suggest you take down this post or else.

jauntywundrkind: That's why it will get flagged. Bother & damnation.I cannot state enough how strongly I think people should have to be some accountability at least to 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.

bastard_op: Tim Apple always does what is right! Next he'll give an Apple Peace Prize to Bibi.