Posted on 08/30/2018 9:21:41 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Snap, the company behind Snapchat, apologized on Thursday after its map feature mislabeled New York City as “Jewtropolis.”
Snap said that the incident was due to vandalism of data from OpenStreetMap, a service that allows users to edit and submit information to build its maps.
"Snap Map, similar to other apps, relies on third-party mapping data from OpenStreetMap, which unfortunately has been vandalized,” a Snap spokesperson said in a statement. “This defacement is deeply offensive and entirely contrary to our values, and we want to apologize to any members of our community who saw it. As soon as we were alerted to this, we began working with our partner Mapbox to fix it, and it is now corrected on the Snap Map."
OpenStreetMap did not immediately respond when asked for comment.
But according to Buzzfeed News, OpenStreetMap’s site was not showing the name “Jewtropolis” for New York on Thursday morning, while a demo map from Mapbox was. Mapbox partners with companies like Snap to provide location data platforms, according to its website.
“This morning, the label of ‘New York City’ on our maps was vandalized,” the company said in a blog post on Medium. “Within an hour, our team deleted and removed that information. The malicious edit was made by a source that attempted several other hateful edits. Our security team has confirmed no additional attempts were successful.”
Mapbox added that it was considering changes to prevent similar vandalism in the future.
Find out who committed the vandalism, find their political leanings, and then you will know the motive.
Was this done by someone who hates Jews, someone who wanted to make it appear OpenStreetMap hates Jews, someone who wanted to create a 'teachable moment' (left-wing activist), or some teenager who knew it would push peoples' buttons?
Or a Jew who would like New York to have more Jews?
There is actually a place in India called “Jewtown”
(which, they point out, is not a pejorative but is
merely meant to be descriptive).
Trying to picture a Jewish super hero
Ebaums strikes again?
Second time this happened. Remember the Rev. Jessie Jackson and “Hiamitown”?
It was just a typo. /sar
How stupid do they think we are?
Someone had to type this onto their computer screen.
Ok just for kicks, I waited 10 min for my computer to type all by itself.
Gosh, nothing happened.
Gal Gadot.
Here’s the Jewish population by state:
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jewish-population-in-the-united-states-by-state.
NY,NJ, MA and CA account for most of the total. MS, not so much.
Hahaha. Damn kids
You hit it faster.
Reminds me of the Habbo Hotel “Pool’s Closed” raids.
It should be noted that it’s not easy to find these photos of Israelis defending children with their bodies on Google.
It’s been scrubbed. I swear it has. I used to use these pictures all the time.
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