India forces GitHub to take down Bitchat "Bitchat enables anonymous communication without mandatory user registration, phone number verification, or centralized logging of communications. The technical architecture of the application significantly impedes interception, attribution, and investigation by law enforcement agencies." – Government of India

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ACCOUNT_DELETED 3 months ago
They claim that India is a “democracy”. Can it be then, that the Indian people voted for authoritarian measures for their government? Or is democracy just a psyop and a lie?
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Ellie Winters 3 months ago
seems like we got indian feds also trying to community note jacks post on X, how exactly do they even plan to ban bluetooth mesh communications? oh wait they cant image
So I guess the question here is what does GitHub do. I assume this isn't the first time they got something like this.
Honestly, bitchat's functionality aside, I see it more as a tool for voluntary CIA lackeys during colour revolutions rather than a tool for free communication. I'd see LoRa as such due to its geographical range, even if its performance is limited, but I really don't see any realistic use for bitchat outside of what might interest the CIA for carrying out coups in other people's countries...
"Bitchat enables anonymous communication without mandatory user registration, phone number verification, or centralized logging of communications." You mean like a... voice does? View quoted note →
How prestigious... "significantly impedes interception, attribution, and investigation by law enforcement agencies" Someone's doing the right thing.
Why can a nation force an internet website to take down anything? This used to be beyond the nation's reach. The answer is of course, that these website owners complied with sharing their banking identity and registering their businesses. IDIOTS..
But then said bitchat is cloned a 1000 times right ? Uncensorable !
Fuck that was hilarious That should become a meme whenever someone needs an excuse for something
Most likely coordinating this psyop with the Indian government so that Indians download bitchat and it gives the Indian government a backdoor into their devices and helps them track people
No it's a psyop and it's crazy how many of you are retarded enough to support the NSA and CIA just because India is doing a psyop to trick people into downloading it
Don't even need to coordinate with the government. They are publicly baiting governments into banning it and these retard Indians fell for the bait. Every shitty protest in the world, (some straight up CIA ops), they bot a little activity into that geohash, then hit up all their journalist connects who report "protestors in ___ coordinating on bitchat" then they go out and proclaim "governments are falling because of our app" to bait governments to push back against it. It has nothing to do with nostr. It might generate keypairs, but there is no persistent identity that that keypair enables, they don't even verify signatures. It trusts the relays and other users to only send them valid events. The one cool feature is the mesh messaging, but that hasn't been used anywhere except bitcoin conferences.
The app also enables offline communications during natural disasters and can save lives. Surely the government of India wants to save its citizens lives, right… right?
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