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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 Mexi
by aduffy 5mo ago
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.
- bdangubic 5mo agoUS government demanded it, not requested it
- microtonal 5mo agoAssociated Press was even banned from the White House for calling it the Gulf of Mexico: https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/announcements/ap-statement-on-oval-office-access/ https://www.ap.org/the-definitive-source/announcements/ap-st...
- solid_fuel 5mo agoYeah, that was another one of the constant mask-off moments. The Party of Free Speech hates free speech.
- nutjob2 5mo ago> I'm not sure why they would do this for US users unless the US government requested it. Because the US govt. is petty and vindictive at the moment.
- Ylpertnodi 5mo ago> Because the US govt. is petty and vindictive at the moment. And has been for many, many years.
- redox99 5mo agoGoogle maps has done this forever. A good chunk of countries have disputed territories, and never in human history there has been a "universal" map that everybody agrees on.
- aduffy 5mo agoSure, but I'm in the US, which is not a party to the conflict between Israel and Lebanon. To my knowledge the US continues to recognize Lebanon as a sovereign country.
- DashAnimal 5mo agoThis isn't happening on Google Maps though is it? We're just talking about Apple Maps here.
- cma 5mo agoWe had to build a very expensive and risky pier to get aid into to Gaza instead of just sending it through our ally Israel to be delivered over the ground. There's something different than a normal ally relationship.
- xg15 5mo agoA very expensive and risky pier that still just delivered the aid to an IDF base inside Gaza and not to Gazans (or aid orgs) directly. Based on a plan from an Israeli think tank...
- flyinglizard 5mo agoBlame the Israeli public for not wanting to feed their enemy.
- xg15 5mo agoAnd not letting themselves or anyone else feed them either, huh?
- cineticdaffodil 5mo agoIt was so bad they had to post pictures of starving Syrians.
- tpm 5mo ago
- concinds 5mo agoThis is worldwide, not just for US users. And most towns seem missing, including in areas Israel has never bombed. It keeps blowing me away how brain dead the internet can be.