{"id":1040920,"date":"2026-10-05T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040920"},"modified":"2026-10-05T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T05:10:12","slug":"unconstitutional-advocacy-group-condemns-bitchats-removal-from-india-app-store-on-govt-order-lists-four-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/05\/unconstitutional-advocacy-group-condemns-bitchats-removal-from-india-app-store-on-govt-order-lists-four-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Unconstitutional\u2019: Advocacy group condemns BitChat&#8217;s removal from India App Store on govt order, lists four demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), an advocacy organisation, criticised Apple&#8217;s decision to remove BitChat from App Store as &#8220;unconstitutional&#8221;. The organisation said, &#8220;Section 69A permits the blocking of unlawful information, not of a messenger for working during internet shutdowns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bitchat is an offline messaging application associated with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), an advocacy organisation, criticised Apple&#8217;s decision to remove BitChat from App Store as &#8220;unconstitutional&#8221;. The organisation said, &#8220;Section 69A permits the blocking of unlawful information, not of a messenger for working during internet shutdowns.&#8221; Bitchat is an offline messaging application associated with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040920","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040921,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040920\/revisions\/1040921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}