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>>myster+(OP)
Probably related to this: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v869-about-taiwan/

>>simlev+S1
Everyone is entitled to their opinions.

My opinion is that open source documentation is like polite dinner conversation: It’s not the proper place to discuss politics.

If an author wishes to use their open source project as a platform to discuss politics, that’s the author’s prerogative. But then, as perhaps in this instance, it could be to the detriment of the project itself.

>>maxkfr+Mb
Skirt too short, in other words?

I'm going to place the blame on the party committing the crimes, not the person exercising free expression.

>>cespar+Zc
This is a zero sum take. There are no winners, only the people you deem using free expression correctly. Would a developer who names releases like "Ukrainians are nazi's" or "Taiwan is China" be met with this same sympathy? Or would you brush them off as a mouthpiece for those governments? I'm thinking it's the latter. Free expression is rarely anything other than socially acceptable expression.

>>jajuuk+xh
IMO the ethical response should be positive disengagement with entities with which you disagree, instead of negative engagement.

See something in the release notes of an app you don’t like? Go use a different app, give your money to a different entity. Don’t spend your time and resources messing with the producer or user of the thing you don’t like.

This of course runs the risk of maximal polarization once everyone has filtered themselves into their neat and tidy little bubbles. What happens then, everybody leaves each other alone? Or do the echo chambers slide into further radicalized detachment from each other?