The reasoning behind the rejection [0] seems quite thought out, and took some time and discussion in coming.
> Violation of foundational rights cannot be justified by some crude imagination of freedom, that argument doesn't hold. Quoting the German constitution, Art. 2 (1): "Every person shall have the right to free development of his personality insofar as he does not violate the rights of others [...].". The contents violate other people's rights quite obviously and repeatedly. Such a platform shall never receive any attention through our app.
Not every country has the broad definition of freedom of speech that the US has.
It shouldn't be an _expectation_ that the developers would attempt to subvert their own laws to satisfy a loud minority. (Refer back to emphasis before taking issue with this particular sentence.)
This isn’t a pull request it’s a feature request in an issue. The maintainer response about why they won’t include it sounds like it isn’t technically simple or inexpensive enough to make it worthwhile.
The reasoning behind the rejection [0] seems quite thought out, and took some time and discussion in coming.
> Violation of foundational rights cannot be justified by some crude imagination of freedom, that argument doesn't hold. Quoting the German constitution, Art. 2 (1): "Every person shall have the right to free development of his personality insofar as he does not violate the rights of others [...].". The contents violate other people's rights quite obviously and repeatedly. Such a platform shall never receive any attention through our app.
Not every country has the broad definition of freedom of speech that the US has.
It shouldn't be an _expectation_ that the developers would attempt to subvert their own laws to satisfy a loud minority. (Refer back to emphasis before taking issue with this particular sentence.)
[0] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor/pull/325#iss...