SHUT UP.
First, you disowned the students saying "CJP doesn’t endorse this" and threw them under the bus by calling it "distasteful."
Second, when we said she was a MINOR, you, like everyone else, assumed she was 25. You didn’t even bother to verify.
NOW that she's confirmed to be a MINOR, your savior complex has suddenly switched on?
@Schandillia Never said that you did! Just saying that right now it’s not important to reiterate that while we condemn the police action but we also feel that the girl is stupid, because we fear that the other side(one supporting the cjp/protests) will think that we are one of them.
@Schandillia Condemning this witch-hunt is not equivalent to condoning the behaviour of the girl and right now everyone should be condemning that, there should be no but!
@Schandillia Islamists going after Nupur Sharma, for saying something which they considered profane, and we are not even talking about god here, we are talking about a human . The opinion differ because we feel that the girl is stupid?
The complaint has her address, her contact details, @RahulGandhi you need to intervene IMMEDIATELY.
The girl is being hounded from last few days. Sanghi Vultures are after her life. A zero FIR has been filed. This girl needs help!
She is a child. She may have went too far, but this doesn't mean she needs to be jailed. PM is a public servant, you cannot jail someone for abusing a public servant VERBALLY. He is not GOD.
Please don't let this happen. Don't let them succeed with setting a wrong precedent.
HELP HER!
@Pawankhera@VinodJakharIN
Statement : The blocking of BitChat's code on GitHub is unconstitutional and authoritarian.
New Delhi, 24 July 2026
The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) condemns the order issued by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), Ministry of Home Affairs, directing GitHub to remove the code repositories of BitChat.
The order, Notice No. 11072601011432, was issued at 11:16 pm on 23 July 2026 under Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 read with Rule 3(1)(d) of the IT Rules, 2021. The order directs GitHub to disable access to three repositories, including the Android application and its release files, within three hours. It threatens the platform with loss of safe harbour and criminal prosecution. No copy was published by the Government of India. The public learnt of it from a post by @jack, whose team develops BitChat. Censorship in India now comes to light through disclosure by the censored.
Since 17 July 2026, the Ministry of Home Affairs has suspended mobile internet around Jantar Mantar as per public reports about five times, most recently within a 1.5 kilometre radius from 4 pm until midnight on 23 July. That radius takes in Janpath and parts of Connaught Place. Reports describe signal jammers at the protest site and people walking two kilometres before their phones work. Inside that zone a student separated from her group during a detention drive cannot send a message to say where she is. Thousands of students and young people have camped at Jantar Mantar since June, seeking accountability for examination irregularities. Permission for their march to Parliament was refused. Metro stations were shut and also internet connectivity has been blocked.
BitChat is an open source application built for exactly this situation. It passes messages from phone to phone over Bluetooth, without mobile networks or a central server. It is striking that the order does not identify a single unlawful message. It objects to what BitChat is. In its own words, the application is dangerous because it enables communication "even during network restrictions" and can "circumvent lawful restrictions" during "internet shutdowns". Hence, the government's objection is that citizens can speak to one another while it has switched the internet off.
The order is illegal on at least four grounds.
1. Section 79(3)(b) is not a blocking power. In Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (2015) 5 SCC 1, the Supreme Court read down the provision. Intermediaries may be required to act only on a court order, or a government notification confined to the grounds under Article 19(2) of the Constitution. Blocking is governed exclusively by Section 69A and the Blocking Rules, 2009, which require a hearing and reasons recorded in writing, subject to review. Directions issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal evade these safeguards, and constitutional challenges to this parallel regime are pending before High Courts.
2. The reasons in the order are circular. The order asserts that the repositories contain "information which is prohibited under any law" without naming any such information, and rests on what the application is "capable of" enabling. Anticipated misuse of a communications tool is not a lawful basis to prohibit the tool. By this logic a telephone exchange could be sealed.
3. The order cites Section 43 of the IT Act, a civil compensation provision, alongside conspiracy and abetment offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, against a platform that hosts code.
4. A three hour deadline issued close to midnight forecloses legal assessment and recourse, and fails the proportionality standard in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020) 3 SCC 637.
The order also fails on its own terms as deleting a repository does not delete the application from any phone that carries it, and the mesh keeps functioning without servers. What the takedown actually prevents is scrutiny of the underlying code.
IFF demands that the Government of India:
1. Withdraw Notice No. 11072601011432 dated 23 July 2026 issued to GitHub.
2. Publish every takedown direction issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal, with the reasons recorded for each.
3. Restore full connectivity around Jantar Mantar, publish all suspension orders, and disclose the legal authority for the deployment of jammers.
We stand with the developers and the young protesters whose speech this order seeks to silence.
@Rezang_La in the protest, ( why, again a separate discussion) and they are the most non-sexist, open-minded and kind kids I know. So, we should not be generalising, we are not the most non-sexist generation either. It’s a mix.
@Rezang_La women will not be glorified for the same.
A few days back there were pictures of Rahul Gandhi with some girl and actively used for maligning his image. Should we be talking about that, we should not.
As for Gen-Zs, there are kids in my house who are actively participating
@cvkrishnan Taken over by rogue elements, the narrative offers nothing new,it’s weird that twitter audience thinks that people on Insta ( even Gen-Z) supporting the protests are not already talking about these,
@cvkrishnan Ofcourse now that you can’t win the narrative, but still want to remain ideologically respected, let’s talk about what all could have been avoided, not a single voice talking abou the immediate action points by the government,but keep stressing that the protest now has been
In Mirzapur, Kaleen Bhaiya says “ c_____a hai ye important nahi hai, hamara ladka hai wo important hai.” And that’s how most Indian men think when it is about the people of the political party they support.
Meta bans are cutting Indian brands off from ads, shops, catalogues and support. I added my company to the verified petition for a real India-backed escalation path. Add yours: https://t.co/k1KU5K7fXX