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Notepad++ drops Bing after “tank man” censorship fiasco

The latest Notepad++ release has removed support for Bing search from the app after the “tank man”” fiasco Microsoft had to deal with on Friday afternoon. Bing would not return any image or video results when searching for the phrase in the US

Source: and other countries worldwide. China banned the popular Notepad+ app in August 2020 after Don Ho protested against China’s human rights violations of the Uyghur people and the Hong Kong political unrest by releasing two versions dubbed ‘Stand with Hong Kong’ and ‘Free Uygur'”

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