Internet Freedom Foundation calls India's BitChat GitHub takedown order 'unconstitutional'

India's cybercrime agency ordered GitHub to remove repositories for BitChat, Jack Dorsey's decentralized messaging app, within three hours, citing risks of surveillance evasion and unlawful activity. The Internet Freedom Foundation challenged the order as unconstitutional, arguing it bypassed formal website-blocking procedures and targeted the app's architecture rather than specific illegal content.

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