China has banned the popular Notepad replacement software called Notepad++ due to the developer’s protests against the political unrest in Hong Kong and China’s human rights violations of the Uyghur people. The Notepad+ website is still accessible from Chinese browsers, and it is only the download pages that are blocked. The creator of Notepad ++, Don Ho, told BleepingComputer that he was never contacted by the Chinese government, but is not surprised by the ban. The block message uses an ‘evilclass’ variable with a value of 8, which is the only message to state that it “is banned by the state”””
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/popular-notepad-plus-plus-text-editor-banned-in-china/