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While Israel is erasing the people in Lebanon, Apple has decided to help by erasing the people's homes.
Almost all except the most major towns and villages have been wiped from Apple Maps, as if the people never existed in areas populated since earliest known human history, as if it would be "empty land" as the settlers lied about the forcibly displaced Palestinians' homes after the Nakba to fraudulently legitimize their huge scale war crimes, genocide.

Don't consume rotten Apple.
Boycott Apple.

The very many obviously densely populated villages and towns are visible in Apple Maps' own satellite view, but Apple Maps just apparently claims those very many people living there now have no written name for their home locations... if they are in Lebanon. If they are across the border in Israel or Syria, then they do.

It is as if Apple is trying to claim that the people in the area where the type of writing that everyone use while writing in e.g. English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, etc was actually invented, are now unable to write names for their towns and villages.

The Phoenician alphabet is the root of the Latin alphabet which all those languages and many more are written in by the Phoenician alphabet creating e.g. the concept of a phonetic alphabet where each symbol represent a defined sound instead of an entire word as previous writing systems, that Phoenician alphabet is literally specifically from Phoenicia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicia#/media/File:Phoenicia_map-en.svg which is that area which we currently call Lebanon, where Apple has wiped out the the names from all but the largest towns and villages, while Israel is wiping out the people in and from there.

Phoenicia - Wikipedia

@b9AcE #ALT4you maps from the Mediterranean coast of Israël and Lebanon, showing that Lebanese settlements have been erased

@webhat Thank you!

@b9AcE you're welcome

David LeP0le 1d ago

@b9AcE
Worst they make apple consumer proud to get that devices... despite that kind of shit.

@b9AcE I checked myself when I first saw this. You can zoom into the villages using satellite view (and see individual business names pop up) but the town names are gone in map view! 😳

https://oldbytes.space/@eobet/115584046667475442

@eobet Your reply inspired me to write this https://todon.eu/@b9AcE/116396544761403840 further.
Thank you.

divVerent 1d ago

@b9AcE Meanwhile Google Maps still seems to have them; see screenshot.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Al+Qusayr,+Syria/@34.5328668,35.9211194,12z

We probably should watch them - not unlikely they'll be forced to delete it too.

@divVerent Yes, I did check them before I wrote my toot.

divVerent 1d ago

@b9AcE Also, OpenStreetmap:

https://www.openstreetbrowser.org/#map=12/34.5320/36.0590&basemap=osm-mapnik

Another thing to better watch.

divVerent 1d ago

@b9AcE Has Apple erased recently, or have these places never been added? Which still would speak for political bias and bad quality of Apple Maps.

@divVerent I actually had not used Apple Maps before now, to check this, because Apple Maps had many extremely bad results early after initial release making people e.g. in USA drive very, very wrong.
Also... I already boycotted Apple.

@b9AcE Thing is, the extent of the destruction done by Israel has completely wiped everything off the land.

People's homes, hospitals, universities, schools, etc no longer exist. There is nothing for people to return to. So, if the map displays that erasure as there's nothing there anymore then it has some merit to it, it's accurate, that's a genuine reflection of how bad the destruction has been.

Michiel Amphifa Nieuwstraten 🔆23h ago

@b9AcE it’s possible to let Apple know about ‘omissions’ in Maps from within the app. I did that for a random town I saw…

@MiNieuw Aha.
I have boycotted Apple since before iPhone so I wouldn't know, but for people who don't, this is good information for them to see.
Thank you.