Very nice, Jack Ji :))
To accept you as a neutral "messiah" requires a rather severe case of institutional amnesia regarding your decade at Twitter (now X).
- Under your leadership, Twitter routinely censored accounts, shadow-banned users & altered algos globally at the behest of various state actors & domestic political pressures.
- When Twitter operated under you, it regularly complied with legal takedown requests from govts worldwide including India, Turkey & Germany under local legal compliance frameworks (Section 69A of India's IT Act, European Union GDPR regulations, etc.).
Now, to understand the absurdity of the claim, 1 must look at what "BitChat" actually represents in software architecture & regulatory reality.
If BitChat is genuinely a P2P, decentralized protocol, no govt can physically "take it down" any more than they can "take down" BitTorrent/the Mathematics of RSA Encryption. If it can be taken down, then it is a centralized service hosted on corporate infra, making it subject to the standard laws of whichever country’s land it operates in.
Anyway, nothing drives downloads/developer interest faster in tech circles than claiming a major nation-state is terrified of your code.
आमध्याह्नं नदीवासः समाजे देवतार्चनम् I
सततं शुचिवेषश्च इत्येतद्दम्भस्य जीवितम् II
āmadhyāhnaṃ nadīvāsaḥ samāje devatārcanam I
satataṃ śuciveṣaśca ityetaddambhasya jīvitam II
"Staying by the river until midday, worshipping the deities in public assemblies & always wearing clean attire,
this is the life of a hypocrite."
The Twitter Files revealed that Jack censored and banned accounts of tens of thousands of common users at the behest of US government agencies and private, billionaire-funded think tanks like the Atlantic Council. These were people who did not share the political views of the American ruling elite on everything from Covid, China, Ukraine, Russia and India. @jack actively suppressed voices on behalf of the Washington regime and its private donors.
Unacceptable.
Deeply regrettable that the Indian government is incapable of defending its citizens and sovereign territory from a horde of foreign terrorists.