THIS IS INSANE. 🤯
India gave GitHub THREE HOURS to delete BitChat.
By the time the deadline hit, the app was already back. On a network with no company to send the order to.
Here's what happened:
• India orders GitHub to remove BitChat, citing "unlawful communication"
• GitHub has 3 hours to comply or face legal action
• Within hours, a developer mirrors the entire codebase on Radicle
• Radicle has no central server. No company. No CEO to subpoena. No app store to pressure.
• The instructions go out: clone it, seed it, keep it alive
• Every person who seeds it becomes another copy the government can't touch
The part nobody's saying out loud: this is the exact scenario BitChat was built for.
It runs on pure Bluetooth. No internet. No SIM. No phone number. It was already unkillable at the app layer, that's why protesters in Nepal, Iran, and Madagascar used it to route around government shutdowns.
Now the SOURCE CODE is unkillable too.
India didn't delete BitChat. It just handed the entire internet a live demo of why decentralized infrastructure exists.
You can order a company to take something down. You can't order a network that isn't owned by anyone.
Command to mirror it yourself is already public. People are seeding it right now.
🚨🇮🇳BREAKING: India just ordered GitHub to take down Jack Dorsey's BitChat within three-hours.
The mechanism explains why. BitChat runs entirely over Bluetooth, no internet, no servers, no phone number needed. That's exactly why NEET protesters started using it after mobile internet got suspended around Parliament and Jantar Mantar this week.
China already pulled BitChat from its App Store twice this year for the identical reason, protest coordination during Iran and elsewhere. India's citing public order and unlawful assembly risk under IT Rules.
Jack Dorsey's saud: the government doesn't like technology it can't turn off.
You can shut down mobile data. You can't shut down two phones standing next to each other.