{"id":1023618,"date":"2026-07-25T08:25:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023618"},"modified":"2026-07-25T08:27:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:57:30","slug":"explained-why-govt-wants-jack-dorseys-bitchat-app-removed-and-why-digital-rights-groups-disagree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/25\/explained-why-govt-wants-jack-dorseys-bitchat-app-removed-and-why-digital-rights-groups-disagree\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: Why govt wants Jack Dorsey\u2019s Bitchat app removed and why digital rights groups disagree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) has directed GitHub, the Microsoft-owned code hosting platform, to remove an open-source Bluetooth messaging application \u2018Bitchat\u2019 built by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The notice was issued on July 23 and Dorsey shared it publicly on X on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>With the notice, Dorsey wrote, \u201cThe government of India does not like technologies like bitchat and wants it taken down.\u201d Digital rights group Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has since called the order \u201cunconstitutional and authoritarian\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C) has directed GitHub, the Microsoft-owned code hosting platform, to remove an open-source Bluetooth messaging application \u2018Bitchat\u2019 built by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. The notice was issued on July 23 and Dorsey shared it publicly on X on Friday. With the notice, Dorsey wrote, \u201cThe government of India does not like technologies like bitchat and wants it taken down.\u201d Digital rights group Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has since called the order \u201cunconstitutional and authoritarian\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023634,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023618\/revisions\/1023634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}