Notepad++ issues attacked by Chinese commenters

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Remember when GitHub started allowing removing issues, rather than just closing them? People got all wound up saying that issues shouldn't be totally removed and there should be a public record of the maintainer closing it.

This is a perfect example of what that feature enables. The maintainers can, if they want, just go in and remove all these issue reports. It totally removes any power that troll accounts have.

"People will tell me again to not mix politics with software/business. Doing so surely impacts the popularity of Notepad++: talking about politics is exactly what software and commercial companies generally try to avoid. The problem is, if we don’t deal with politics, politics will deal with us. We can choose to not act when people are being oppressed, but when it’s our turn to be oppressed, it will be too late and there will be no one for us. You don’t need to be Uyghur or a Muslim to act, you need only to be a human and have empathy for our fellow humans."

I understand the value of not wanting to bring politics into a shared large tech community, but at the same time you should be able to do what you want with your own software, and using it to push your ideals is legit.

We must remember though that this should also apply to ideas we don't agree with.

I'm sure these guys mean well but they've been manipulated as much as the 'other side' has been.

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What news are reported and how they are reported in not random [1]. There has very clearly been a campaign against China and this shows that it is working.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model