@Crypto_Jargon: THIS IS INSANE. India gave GitHub THREE HOURS to delete BitChat. By the time the deadline hit, the app was already back…

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India ordered GitHub to remove the Bluetooth messaging app BitChat within three hours, but the codebase was quickly mirrored on the decentralized platform Radicle, making removal impossible and demonstrating the power of decentralized infrastructure.

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.
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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.

Crypto Jargon (@Crypto_Jargon): 🚨🇮🇳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

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