Jack Dorsey: Indian Government Requests Removal of BitChat
Jack Dorsey stated that the Indian government dislikes technologies like BitChat and wishes to have it removed.
The Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Center issued a notice to GitHub, requesting the disabling of BitChat-related code repositories within hours, citing that the Bluetooth mesh offline encrypted chat application could be used for illegal activities and communication during internet shutdowns.
The attention on event-driven decentralized communication tools is rising, with funding flowing towards anti-censorship and offline network technologies, benefiting open-source developers and privacy tools, while putting pressure on centralized platforms and content regulation enforcement.
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Jack Dorsey, who founded Twitter before shifting to Block and Bitcoin promotion, launched BitChat in 2025 as a serverless, phone number-free Bluetooth mesh P2P encrypted chat tool. It had previously been removed from the China App Store and continues to emphasize anti-censorship and decentralized communication.
In terms of capital pathways, Dorsey promotes the spread of BitChat through open-source repositories and personal advocacy, motivated by the goal of building a backup communication layer under internet censorship and embedding Bitcoin transaction capabilities into offline scenarios to strengthen his long-term decentralized vision.
With Signal facing restrictions in multiple countries and Telegram being used in protests, current decentralized messaging tools are in a phase of expanding from experimental to real conflict scenario applications.
This essentially reflects regulatory changes: the government is implementing code-level removals for technologies without central nodes, using intermediary platforms (GitHub) to pressure and cut off distribution, attempting to maintain control over communication infrastructure while accelerating developers' shift to harder-to-trace distribution channels.
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- The more decentralized, the more it is seen as a threat.
- In places where the internet is blocked, offline protocols become a necessity.