Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat Hit With India Censorship Order on GitHub
- India’s I4C agency sent GitHub a legal order to remove three Bitchat repositories.
- The government said that the app could easily be misused by terrorists and criminal gangs.
- GitHub only has a few hours to comply or risk losing certain legal protection.
Jack Dorsey (CEO of Square and co-founder of former Twitter) posted on X, saying that India’s government ordered GitHub to remove the repositories for Bitchat, an offline messaging application that doesn’t rely on the internet and was developed by Dorsey.
He also attached screenshots of an official government notice showing that the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) agency, which falls under the Ministry of Home Affairs, sent GitHub a legal order to remove three Bitchat repositories.
Dorsey commented on the ordeal, simply saying: “The government of India does not like technologies like Bitchat and…
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