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

Israel is really out there just killing everyone in the middle east

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.

This saddens me and I don’t understand why it is allowed to continue.

And I’m not just talking about Apple Maps.

Apple maps used (last i knew) Scala to import externally sourced map datasets continuously, and those may have lost towns and villages in Lebanon.

This is amid an ongoing bombing campaign by Israel which is primarily targeting civilians.

What purpose would this serve in any way?

Could it be that their data source is tied to satellite data that is now being blacked out?

Any justification given by Apple?

Willful blindness as a service

This is insane

How 1984 of them. "This village never existed, stop asking about it"

Currently 50 points and is just a link to Apple Maps with an unverified claim.

EDIT: I'm at -2 for stating a fact.

What’s the point in sharing these articles on HN, when the comment section shows they are clearly just used as an excuse for people to vocally confirm their own biases?