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India Orders GitHub to Remove Jack Dorsey's Bitchat Repositories Under IT Act (wp.me)
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India has directed GitHub to disable access to the repositories of Bitchat, Jack Dorsey's decentralized Bluetooth mesh messaging application, under Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act and the IT Rules, 2021. According to the official notice issued by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), authorities argue that Bitchat's decentralized architecture, lack of mandatory user registration, absence of centralized logging, and ability to operate without internet connectivity make lawful interception and criminal investigations significantly more difficult.

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[–] NGram@piefed.ca 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yup. Good luck taking down mirrors outside of India. For example mine are not in India, come at me Indian government.

https://git.ngram.ca/mirrors/bitchat

https://git.ngram.ca/mirrors/bitchat-android

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

We’re gonna see a lot of i2p and webtorrent tech in the coming years. I should spin up my amnesia node again now that I think about it. I moved and never got around to setting it back up.