India cuts internet, then demands removal of bitchat's code

5 pointsposted 10 hours ago
by sakumen

3 Comments

aurareturn

9 hours ago

India has the wrong government type for its development stage in my opinion.

They don't have an educated enough population for a democracy to work yet. They don't have an authoritarian government to make hard decisions and stick to them such as building long-term infrastructure. Yet, their democracy will do something like this which is what authoritarian governments do.

Worse of both worlds - none of the benefits of either.

ColdStream

9 hours ago

I have seen it said, India is disappointing to both pessimists and optimists.

It is funny all the different ways that can apply.

sakumen

10 hours ago

On July 23 at exactly 11:16 PM, GitHub received a notice from India's Ministry of Home Affairs with a countdown of just 3 hours. What this notice demanded was the removal of 3 code repositories - and not just any repositories. Those of bitchat , Jack Dorsey's Bluetooth messaging app that works without any network whatsoever.