> I can't help but feel there must some better venue for such messaging.

I would argue that this has been an effective avenue for messaging/protest. You’re responding to it on this very board - that means you’re thinking about it.

Another angle: would such free protest be allowed if the developers of Notepad++ were based in China or Russia? I seriously doubt it.

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iamnothere 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Typically when I see such messaging in an out of place venue it nudges me slightly against both the message and the venue pushing the message. This occurs regardless of whether I agree with the message. I feel the same way as when I see an ad: this does not belong here.

I don’t think I am the only one who has this reaction. People who do this should consider if it’s actually helping their cause. If not it’s just feelgood signaling, or possibly even counterproductive.

	▲	tjjuckson 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Typically when I see such messaging in an out of place venue it nudges me slightly against both the message and the venue pushing the message. Do you realize how pathetic this statement is? Seeing political messaging makes you turn on your own beliefs? Sometimes I wonder what it's like to be white.

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kvemkon 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> would such free protest be allowed if the developers of Notepad++ were based in

- US arguing for independence of any of the States for whatever reasons?

- Spain for Catalonia?

- France for Basque?

and many more just in Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_separatist_move...

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nophunphil 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not pertinent. My point is more in reference to the ancestor comment with respect to Ukraine and Taiwan:

> Yeah, Notepad++ is known for political messaging in their updates. Taiwan, Ukraine, etc.

If you’re calling Ukraine in particular a “separatist movement”, I don’t think we can have a productive conversation.

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FormerBandmate 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can totally say Texas should be independent. A lot of Texans have.

You can’t be against the Ukraine war in Russia because Putin is an evil dictator

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leosarev 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm writing this comment from Russia, St. Petersburg, and yes, you can be against the Ukraine war in Russia.

	▲	sunaookami an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Always hiliarious when westerners think they know how life works in Russia, China, etc because they heard from it on TV.

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joejoe638 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Based on arrest of protesters in UK, US, and recent laws passed in Australia; it is fair to say that Notepad++’s freedom to protest would depend on who and what they are protesting.

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nophunphil 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I would have been interested in debating the content of your reply if your account had not been created 1 hour ago.

So what about protesting the Russian invasion of Ukraine seems objectionable to you?

> it is fair to say that Notepad++’s freedom to protest would depend on who and what they are protesting.

What? In the US, UK, and Australia, the right to protest (i.e. of speech) does not depend on what’s being protested in the way you’re implying.

	▲	abdelhousni 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Just try to protest decades long ethnical cleansing and war of occupation occurring in Palestine in the USA of the UK, for example, like some students and people did in good conscience. You're a tad idealizing the limits of freedom of speech in the western countries.

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handedness 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Whether people talk about something isn't a measure of success, it's whether it changes public sentiment.

He who politicizes everything politicizes nothing.

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p_ing 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I would argue that this has been an effective avenue for messaging/protest. You’re responding to it on this very board - that means you’re thinking about it.

I think about a lot of things I do absolutely nothing about (or with).

Thinking about whatever messaging is here is like saying "thoughts and prayers". It means shit all nothing. The messaging was a waste of my time and your time. It was an ad for a product you'll never purchase.

	▲	nophunphil 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don’t see it as a waste of my time. I am not in the habit of seeing conflicts in which innocent people die as a “waste of my time”. The idea that my time is somehow more valuable than another person’s is narcissistic.