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| China bans Notepad ++ text editor |
From Monday, China banned the popular text and symbol editing app (Notepad ++).
About its Twitter account, the app says: The reason is clearly "Free Uyghur", "Free Uyghur" and (Standing with Hong Kong) "Standing with Hong Kong".
The app was first launched in 2003 by Don Hu, a Chinese developer living in France. The free Notepad ++ program runs on Windows and supports around 90 languages.
(Don Hu) publicly expressed concern about the human rights situation in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region and Hong Kong in the release notes.
Over the years, Don Ho has published several special articles expressing his political stance, including a 2014 post about the Tiananmen Democracy Protest.
(Don Hu) also cares about human rights and social affairs, adding the word "thank you medical staff" to the release of the app that was released in April of this year to thank the medical staff during the Coronavirus crisis.
When the free Uyghur version appeared in the second half of last year, a nationwide group of users attacked the Github repository (Notepad ++) with Chinese comments.
Testing has shown that the Notepad ++ block applies only to its download page, as it displays a special version and thus politically sensitive language.
If you try to access the download page through a Chinese browser developed by Tencent (called QQ browser with WeChat browser built-in) and UC browser, these services will warn you that the page contains blocked content. From your local regulator.
The Safety Center on the Tencent website displays a warning: This website may contain illegal content and indicates that the website has been reported by a large number of users and may post content that is prohibited in the country and it is recommended that you should visit it with caution to protect your personal safety. .
On the other hand, these local browsers have not blocked the Notepad ++ homepage and the entire website can still be accessed via (Chrome) and (DuckDuckGo) in China.