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Herring on May 3, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil prejudice...

If you can hire a company to check where someone's ancestors lived, I think it's already out of the bag. You can't just pretend the maps don't exist.

eli on May 3, 2009 [–]

Pretending they don't exist isn't the same as adding an easy-to-use tab that lines them up with modern Japan.

This would be a much different situation if, say, Google was being asked to remove links to these maps from their index.

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