Posted at work, origin unknown. But Amazing re #India #Activism #protest #decentralization
"India just gave the whole internet a free lesson on the power of FOSS (Free and open-source software).
The Home Ministry's cybercrime unit ordered GitHub to delete BitChat. Three hour deadline. Comply or face legal action.
Here's the problem with that plan.
BitChat runs on pure Bluetooth mesh. No internet. No SIM. No phone number. No central server. Protesters started using it precisely because the government kept shutting the internet off, and it just kept working.
You cannot delete an app that's already living on people's phones and passing messages device to device.
And the source code? Open source. Within hours it was mirrored to a decentralized platform. Every person who copies it becomes another node the order can't reach.
This is the whole point of self custody thinking, applied to communication instead of money.
You can serve a takedown to a company. There's a CEO, an office, a legal team, a single point of pressure.
You cannot serve a takedown to a network that nobody owns.
India didn't kill BitChat. It ran a live demo of why unkillable infrastructure exists."
💀 Marghoul McFear🎃
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