Errand_Thoughts

Dreams will never let you die.Employed(yes of course an opinionated Indian but views are personal&not of employer,rt aren't endorsement,likes aren't ideology)

[Errand_Thoughts @abhinab]

Elderly have already pointed

"खिसियानी बिल्ली खम्भा नोंचे" 😼

Where is my homeopathy goli:

"जो दूसरों को गाली देते हैं, वे अपना ही सम्मान खो देते हैं।"

--
Dimagi Naxal 👻

[Errand_Thoughts @abhinab]

Assuming you as a Gujju (if I am not wrong) and I having lived in Gujarat, I have seen 1st hand how strictly the system is controlled there and now how federal system is controlled.

[Errand_Thoughts @abhinab]

I no longer read newspapers cause they're too biased. I prefer a few specific magazines. However, I wonder if they can actually deliver those that criticize the govt. What recently happened with food delivery at Jantar Mantar is a real eye opener regarding how these apps operate.

[Yavanika Shah @yavanikashah]

Why are @letsblinkit and @Swiggy NOT delivering newspapers yet???

ET. TOI. HT. Every morning. At my door.

You already have the riders.
You already have my address.
You already have the app.
You already deliver my toothpaste, bananas and questionable 2am purchases.

And somehow I still have to negotiate with a man on a bicycle for my Economic Times.

Girl, the last-mile infrastructure is RIGHT THERE. 😭

[Errand_Thoughts @abhinab]

#cjp #protest

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

ANAHAT CREATES HISTORY FOLKS 🏆🥹

- She became the First ever Indian Player to win World Squash Junior C’ship! 🇮🇳

[Errand_Thoughts @abhinab]

O darte hain ki, hum na darna chhod dein. Jai Jagannath! Thank you @dpradhanbjp
ji. Belated wishes on your resignation. All the best, and please do care about us in the future as well. We are also citizens of this country, just like you.

[Bitchat Community @BitchatMe_]

Official notice from the Indian government to GitHub regarding the removal and disabling of bitchat.

Governments that fear people talking without permission will always go after the tools that make it possible.

[jack @jack]

the government of india does not like technologies like bitchat and wants it taken down

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

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.

[Siddharth @SidKeVichaar]

🚨 BREAKING:

Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says the Government of India wants Bitchat taken down

The app allows people to communicate through Bluetooth mesh networks, even when mobile networks or the internet are shut down

Instead of solving the paper leak crisis and answering calls for resignation, this government appears more focused on stopping protests and controlling communication

The Supreme Leader looks scared. Very, very scared

[Errand_Thoughts @abhinab]

Kada kanoon to make government liers accountable

[Cockroach Janta Party - CJP @Cockroachisback]

Baate bolke bhool jaate hain humesha Modiji

[Errand_Thoughts @abhinab]

#forget #modi

[Errand_Thoughts @abhinab]

Protector of self image not constitution, justice denied in mother of democracy

[🚨Indian Gems @IndianGems_]

"We are banning the uploading and sharing of audio-video recordings of court hearings without prior permission."

— Supreme Court of India

[Errand_Thoughts @abhinab]

This is interesting. Is this real? Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and it is not going to affect her at all. So, it is expected that she doesn't care. Slow clap for @realpreityzinta

[Preity G Zinta @realpreityzinta]

While it’s important to support our students and ask for educational reforms that positively impact the future of our youth, it’s also very important that peaceful protests by students are Not hijacked by anti national elements to create chaos & change the nature of the protest.

Seeing so much hate & divide online makes me wonder if bad elements in & outside our country have already started to work overtime to weaponise the anger & frustration felt by our students.

I have always believed in hard work, equality and excellence & that should never be compromised. I also believe in our democracy, law and order & our government, therefore I sincerely hope that both sides enter into meaningful & constructive dialogue & weed out any nefarious elements & agendas out of this protest & conversation , so the future is bright for our youth and for our democracy ! 🇮🇳 Jai Hind !

[Yogendra Yadav @_YogendraYadav]

शर्म नहीं आती, ऐसा अख़बार छापते हुए?

LIES OF INDIA

#CJPProtest

[Errand_Thoughts @abhinab]

@DelhiPolice New joke

[Errand_Thoughts @abhinab]

@DelhiPolice @zoo_bear I don't believe you

[Errand_Thoughts @abhinab]

Hopeless system hopeless government, do not know how to change it

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

You'll see a lot of protesters at Jantar Mantar with blood streaming from their heads.

[Errand_Thoughts @abhinab]

Courts are for name shake, all systems are ruined

[Bar and Bench @barandbench]

#BreakingNews
Don't drag court into this: Delhi High Court on plea alleging use of excessive force by police against CJP protestors

Read here: https://t.co/6U8HEd9q68

@CJP_for_India @abhijeet_dipke

[Errand_Thoughts @abhinab]

Such brave @DelhiPolice

[Cockroach Janta Party - CJP @Cockroachisback]

The Delhi Police slapping and hitting a 10 year old boy during the protest.