India orders takedown of Jack Dorsey’s bitcoin-linked messaging app Bitchat
The order targets Bitchat, an offline Bluetooth mesh app built to relay encrypted messages and bitcoin transactions, as 'Cockroach Janta Party' protesters in Delhi use mesh tools to communicate through internet shutdowns.
Source: CoinDesk
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DW NOTE
India has shut the internet twelve times in the past month to contain exam-rigging protests; protesters moved to Bluetooth mesh networks; now the government is ordering those apps removed from repositories. The logic is perfect: if people can communicate without permission infrastructure, they can coordinate without permission politics.