India orders GitHub to remove Jack Dorsey's Bitchat repositories

India's cybercrime authority ordered GitHub to remove Jack Dorsey's Bitchat repositories within three hours, citing surveillance risks from the app's anonymous, Bluetooth-based mesh messaging architecture. Digital rights groups challenged the order as unconstitutional overreach, arguing the government misapplied intermediary liability law to block an entire open-source project without identifying specific unlawful content.

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