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[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 84 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"Removed" implies they were there before, and threads for this have zero evidence showing they were there before (and a lot of people claiming they weren't). This whole thing got started because somebody posted about it on Twitter โ€“ and they claimed "South Lebanon" which has apparently metastasized/telephoned into people claiming it was all of Lebanon.

All you show here is a link to Apple Maps, and yeah, they aren't there. This is a thread from 6 years ago claiming Apple's coverage was so egregiously bad that they couldn't plan a route near Beirut. Apple Maps has always been the laughingstock of the major maps services, including even OpenStreetMap whom they (IIRC) sometimes pull data from. No change on Bing or GMaps either, and why the fuck would Apple delete basically all of Lebanon? What mustache-twirling plan did they have to aid Israel's invasion compared to the fucking PR disaster once it was inevitably proven? (And what part does leaving Tyre โ€“ which they call "Tyr" for some godforsaken reason โ€“ when it's functionally abandoned play in this maniacal scheme?)

If you have evidence that it wasn't like this before, then cool. If not, maybe posting your original "research" to a world news comm isn't justified.

[-] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 6 points 3 days ago

why the fuck would Apple delete basically all of Lebanon?

It fits the anti-Apple or big tech narrative - truth has been secondary for ages.

[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Didn't Apple immediately capitulate on the Gulf of America thing?

[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

They've got no answer to that because it's "Anti-Apple" narrative.

It's a cult.

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