Nik @WhoNik_

Great video by @newslaundry : youtu.be/iPiyKwfY2yA

newslaundry @newslaundry

3 days ago

🚨 ATTENTION, COCKROACHES! We've got A LOTTT to dissect, and this episode of Newsance couldn't fit into a regular Friday night. So we're bringing it to you at 11 am on Saturday instead. Set your alarms. Your dose of dhulai will be served first thing in the morning.

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Empty Words | By: Too Little Too Late Productions | @thewire_in

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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Crypto Jargon @Crypto_Jargon

3 days ago

🚨🇮🇳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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India’s Cockroach movement is a lesson: When elites dehumanize people, the people can reclaim the insult, organize around it and make the powerful regret ever opening their mouths.

Defending the Constitution is the highest patriotism. In 2017, the Supreme Court made privacy a fundamental right, even in public. Yet Delhi Police is running live facial recognition on peaceful protesters, with no legal basis. This is unconstitutional mass surveillance. IFF has filed 4 RTIs and a representation to the Police Commissioner.

Ek Aandhi Aayi Hai! 🫡

If they can, they will take down all the students at the protest right now. I am not surprised by this at all. No freedom of speech. No privacy. Just be a good citizen (or as known in India, a puppet).

jack @jack

3 days ago

the government of india does not like technologies like bitchat and wants it taken down

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the government of india does not like technologies like bitchat and wants it taken down

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@bythewaynikhil 😂

Official notice from the Indian government to GitHub regarding the removal and disabling of bitchat. Governments that fear people talking without permission will always go after the tools that make it possible.

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The fear mongering govt. can only block the code, attack students and blame. the IDEA of individual freedom and privacy are long dead in India. They monitor calls, ban accounts if we post against them, and detain citizens. All they care about is controlling the people.

Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom

3 days ago

Statement : The blocking of BitChat's code on GitHub is unconstitutional and authoritarian. New Delhi, 24 July 2026 The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) condemns the order issued by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), Ministry of Home Affairs, directing GitHub

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Statement : The blocking of BitChat's code on GitHub is unconstitutional and authoritarian. New Delhi, 24 July 2026 The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) condemns the order issued by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), Ministry of Home Affairs, directing GitHub to remove the code repositories of BitChat. The order, Notice No. 11072601011432, was issued at 11:16 pm on 23 July 2026 under Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 read with Rule 3(1)(d) of the IT Rules, 2021. The order directs GitHub to disable access to three repositories, including the Android application and its release files, within three hours. It threatens the platform with loss of safe harbour and criminal prosecution. No copy was published by the Government of India. The public learnt of it from a post by @jack, whose team develops BitChat. Censorship in India now comes to light through disclosure by the censored. Since 17 July 2026, the Ministry of Home Affairs has suspended mobile internet around Jantar Mantar as per public reports about five times, most recently within a 1.5 kilometre radius from 4 pm until midnight on 23 July. That radius takes in Janpath and parts of Connaught Place. Reports describe signal jammers at the protest site and people walking two kilometres before their phones work. Inside that zone a student separated from her group during a detention drive cannot send a message to say where she is. Thousands of students and young people have camped at Jantar Mantar since June, seeking accountability for examination irregularities. Permission for their march to Parliament was refused. Metro stations were shut and also internet connectivity has been blocked. BitChat is an open source application built for exactly this situation. It passes messages from phone to phone over Bluetooth, without mobile networks or a central server. It is striking that the order does not identify a single unlawful message. It objects to what BitChat is. In its own words, the application is dangerous because it enables communication "even during network restrictions" and can "circumvent lawful restrictions" during "internet shutdowns". Hence, the government's objection is that citizens can speak to one another while it has switched the internet off. The order is illegal on at least four grounds. 1. Section 79(3)(b) is not a blocking power. In Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (2015) 5 SCC 1, the Supreme Court read down the provision. Intermediaries may be required to act only on a court order, or a government notification confined to the grounds under Article 19(2) of the Constitution. Blocking is governed exclusively by Section 69A and the Blocking Rules, 2009, which require a hearing and reasons recorded in writing, subject to review. Directions issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal evade these safeguards, and constitutional challenges to this parallel regime are pending before High Courts. 2. The reasons in the order are circular. The order asserts that the repositories contain "information which is prohibited under any law" without naming any such information, and rests on what the application is "capable of" enabling. Anticipated misuse of a communications tool is not a lawful basis to prohibit the tool. By this logic a telephone exchange could be sealed. 3. The order cites Section 43 of the IT Act, a civil compensation provision, alongside conspiracy and abetment offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, against a platform that hosts code. 4. A three hour deadline issued close to midnight forecloses legal assessment and recourse, and fails the proportionality standard in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020) 3 SCC 637. The order also fails on its own terms as deleting a repository does not delete the application from any phone that carries it, and the mesh keeps functioning without servers. What the takedown actually prevents is scrutiny of the underlying code. IFF demands that the Government of India: 1. Withdraw Notice No. 11072601011432 dated 23 July 2026 issued to GitHub. 2. Publish every takedown direction issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal, with the reasons recorded for each. 3. Restore full connectivity around Jantar Mantar, publish all suspension orders, and disclose the legal authority for the deployment of jammers. We stand with the developers and the young protesters whose speech this order seeks to silence.

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I think you can share these two videos to convey the idea. Let's keep it *THE STUDENT PROTEST* and as said we don't need political parties to add credibility; the students and their stories should be what matters....

Nik @WhoNik_

3 days ago

Here are two videos to understand the "IDEA" behind the protest and the "BRUTALITY" of the police and the forces on 20th Jul 2026. 1. youtu.be/0j0vUAo52PM ~ @sundaysarthak 2. youtu.be/6MTXCAaOy3o ~ @Samdish

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Here are two videos to understand the "IDEA" behind the protest and the "BRUTALITY" of the police and the forces on 20th Jul 2026. 1. youtu.be/0j0vUAo52PM ~ @sundaysarthak 2. youtu.be/6MTXCAaOy3o ~ @Samdish

Amazing video by @sundaysarthak . youtu.be/0j0vUAo52PM

@IndianTechGuide Someone who is educated enough to understand the difference between prosecution and prostitution

@HelleLyngSvends I think it is just to show that he is working in "Fasttrack mode." He might also want it to look like a raw conversation with the youth.

@HelleLyngSvends Hey, you can ignore such negative comments. We appreciate you taking interest in our country and we would like to invite you to visit India. Ik it looks like a bad place on the internet but trust me you will love the people irl and the culture and the food.

@GitanjaliAngmo We would like to thank you mam for standing strong with Sonam sir and all the protesters when he was away. Thank you for this. Ik the protest is still ongoing but we can see some efforts from the govt to start a dialogue which can be considered a step toward success.

Also thanks to the govt for not going the violent way to end this protest. (again)...

Nik @WhoNik_

4 days ago

Took 26 days, but it was worth the wait. Huge thanks to @Wangchuk66 for his efforts to highlight the issue with his hunger strike. As a student I respect you a lot. Idk if you are Phunsukh Wangdu or not but you are a hero to me and all the students out there. Huge respect.

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