Ho told The Verge that the software’s dedicated site was also under a distributed-denial-of-service attack, but that it has been stopped by an anti-DDoS service provided by the site’s host.įor software like Notepad++, the GitHub page is an important resource, and having it unavailable could be a headache for some users. Another one simply reads, “Bye ! Uninstall.” There’s a litany of curses, and one asks, “What do you know about China?” Others have moved in to criticize the Chinese government in response. “Stop sending meaningless political-related issues, it just makes you look like an idiot,” reads one comment. Since the announcement, the software’s GitHub “issues” page has been bombarded with spam, much of it in the Chinese language. While the protest may have been innocuous enough, it hasn’t played out that way online. “But you can involve more people to focus on this issue and hopefully apply additional pressure on the Chinese government to stop their oppressive actions and crimes concerning the Uyghur people.” “The fact you have just learned such information is already an action in and of itself,” Ho writes in the announcement. China operates internment camps that are used to detain Uyghur people throughout the country’s Xinjiang region. In a blog post announcing the updated version, developer Don Ho writes about the plight of the Uyghur people, an ethnic minority in China that’s faced persecution from the country’s authoritarian government. Developer writes about plight of the Uyghur people
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