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I don't think a software product that removes features for a momentary political fad is a reliable product.

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Sounds like you agree that Bing is an unreliable product. Understandable that Notepad++ would drop support.

Censorship is a "momentary political fad"?

When Trump was censored from twitter, youtube, facebook... people were very quick to call it private company's freedom

You're comparing the right of a company to censor something that promotes violence or hate on their property and does harm to their business versus a large US corporation pandering to, though censorship of their citizens' struggle for democracy, a totalitarian government that oppresses its citizens and commits genocide against certain ethnic groups.

Yeah, totally the same.

That's what the Chinese government said, the students were promoting violence and hate in their property

See how that works?

Also Trump did not promoted hate or violence, he just stated what many people believe, the Democrats forged the 2020 election. And for that crime he will be banned from social media for at least 2 more years

These two things are simply not connected. The author can do what he want, he can also make it play Chinese national anthem when starting the software, and it'll be the same. It's not connected to the reliability of the software. He's free to do whatever, as long as it doesn't violate other people's rights.

I think OPs point is that the difference in reaction is enlightening. When someone uses software to create some largely meaningless statement on Chinese politics it's received positively, when someone does the same to address American politics we would have 400+ pages of people decrying wokeness or political posturing.

It's not removing a feature, it's shortening the list of search engines.

> momentary political fad

I don't think the Tiananmen Square democracy protests qualify as a "momentary political fad".

Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet, Uighur, et al. independence/democracy is an important, ongoing issue.

A multi-party, democratic China would be dream come true for the world.

> A multi-party, democratic China would be dream come true for the world.

Only if it works better than Russia. I suspect it takes generations to inculcate a love of free speech and public participation in government

The Chinese already participate in local government to some extent, from what I've read.

A multi party democratic china is a dream in many ways, including its relation to reality.

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