In August 2018, Le Monde reported via AFP that China would hold one million Uighurs in "internment camps".
More than one after, the text editor Notepad ++ has unveiled an update: version 7.8.1 of the software is nicknamed "Uighur Free" (" Free Uyghur "). A position that does not please many Chinese Internet users.
Most of these topics are logically written in Chinese, but some are written in English. Netizen 0xNi declares: "I imagine that the author has never visited Xinjiang or even China. Why do not you help countries persecuted by the Western world, like Syria, Afghanistan or Iran? Hilarious. ". Web user Doraemon is also indignant: "How dare you! You are frankly vicious, and you are programmers without any consciousness. " "Foreigners usually treat China with double standards," says HuChundong, another user.
In addition to the lively debate sparked by the initiative, Notepad ++ has also suffered an online attack since the release of version 7.8.1. Don Ho, the software developer, said: "The notepad-plus-plus.org site has suffered a DDoS attack from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Paris time. I saw on Google Analytics the number of visitors drop, then my host confirmed the attack. This was stopped by the anti-DDoS service provided by the host ".
Through its updates, Notepad ++ has already taken a stand in the past. In reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre that killed 2,600 people in June 1989, the nickname for the 6.6.4 version of the software was "the June 4th incident in Tiananmen". Following the terrorist attacks that hit the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January 2015, version 6.7.4 of the software was nicknamed "Je Suis Charlie".
Source: The Next Web.
More than one after, the text editor Notepad ++ has unveiled an update: version 7.8.1 of the software is nicknamed "Uighur Free" (" Free Uyghur "). A position that does not please many Chinese Internet users.
GitHub as host of the debate
Since the release of the new version, the GitHub platform hosts the most heated debates. A topic was opened on October 30th to list those related to the publisher's initiative.Most of these topics are logically written in Chinese, but some are written in English. Netizen 0xNi declares: "I imagine that the author has never visited Xinjiang or even China. Why do not you help countries persecuted by the Western world, like Syria, Afghanistan or Iran? Hilarious. ". Web user Doraemon is also indignant: "How dare you! You are frankly vicious, and you are programmers without any consciousness. " "Foreigners usually treat China with double standards," says HuChundong, another user.
The DDoS attack against Notepad ++
Don Ho explains the reasons for this stance: "People will tell me again not to mix politics with business," he says. "It certainly has an impact on the popularity of Notepad ++: talking about politics is exactly what software companies and business organizations usually try to avoid. The problem is that if we do not talk about politics, politics will happen without us. We can choose not to act when people are oppressed, but when it becomes our turn to be oppressed, it will be too late and there will be no one to help us. "In addition to the lively debate sparked by the initiative, Notepad ++ has also suffered an online attack since the release of version 7.8.1. Don Ho, the software developer, said: "The notepad-plus-plus.org site has suffered a DDoS attack from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Paris time. I saw on Google Analytics the number of visitors drop, then my host confirmed the attack. This was stopped by the anti-DDoS service provided by the host ".
Through its updates, Notepad ++ has already taken a stand in the past. In reference to the Tiananmen Square massacre that killed 2,600 people in June 1989, the nickname for the 6.6.4 version of the software was "the June 4th incident in Tiananmen". Following the terrorist attacks that hit the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January 2015, version 6.7.4 of the software was nicknamed "Je Suis Charlie".
Source: The Next Web.
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