Planet Labs, one of the world’s leading commercial satellite imaging companies, said Friday it is placing a hold on releasing imagery of some parts of the Middle East as a regional war enters its second week.

Planet wants to prevent “adversarial actors” from using images for “Battle Damage Assessment” purposes.

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    10 hours ago

    Probably because the New York times article that came out Thursday proved they bombed the school on purpose and refused to do more research and intelligence to confirm their targets.

    The administration hates when evidence of their crimes come out, so they most likely threatened every GPS company they could to stop updated images.

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      The article says image over Iran are still available without delay. It’s the regions around around that are affected. I assume it is to hide the effectiveness of Iran retaliation to Iran or to to public opinion.