NewPipe maintainers refuse BitChute pull request

The reasoning behind the rejection [0] seems quite thought out, and took some time and discussion in coming.

> Violation of foundational rights cannot be justified by some crude imagination of freedom, that argument doesn't hold. Quoting the German constitution, Art. 2 (1): "Every person shall have the right to free development of his personality insofar as he does not violate the rights of others [...].". The contents violate other people's rights quite obviously and repeatedly. Such a platform shall never receive any attention through our app.

Not every country has the broad definition of freedom of speech that the US has.

It shouldn't be an _expectation_ that the developers would attempt to subvert their own laws to satisfy a loud minority. (Refer back to emphasis before taking issue with this particular sentence.)

[0] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/pull/325#iss...

This isn’t a pull request it’s a feature request in an issue. The maintainer response about why they won’t include it sounds like it isn’t technically simple or inexpensive enough to make it worthwhile.