Why the govt ordered GitHub to take down Bitchat app
Last week, in the midst of the student protests in Delhi, the government ordered GitHub to take down three pages hosting the source code of messaging app Bitchat. Banasree Purkayastha looks at why the internet-free app is at the centre of a government crackdown
What is the govt order on Bitchat?
On july 23, close to midnight, the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) under the ministry of home affairs had asked the cloud-based web platform GitHub to remove three pages hosting the source code of Bitchat, a Bluetooth mesh messaging app.
