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03 Oct 2026, 11:02 PM	TechCrunch	6.0	Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat disappears from app stores in India after government order Bitchat, Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth-mesh messaging app, has been removed from Apple’s App Store and Google Play in India after India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology issued a blocking demand under Section 69A of the IT Act, according to an Apple notice Dorsey posted on X. Apple’s notice said Bitchat remains available outside India but its TestFlight beta is also blocked in the country, and TechCrunch found the app gone from Google Play and its website inaccessible across several Indian ISPs. The takedown follows a July 2026 order to GitHub to remove Bitchat-related repositories, where the government reportedly said the app’s architecture made law-enforcement interception difficult. Why: For builders who ship global apps or open-source projects, this is a concrete reminder that app stores, TestFlight, GitHub, and even a project website can be blocked per country under local law. If India or similar markets are in scope, check jurisdictional distribution and legal exposure before assuming a global release stays available; for decentralized or offline-first privacy tools, the cited interception concern is a design and regulatory risk, not just an app-store issue. policy app-store open-source decentralized-messaging india

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03 Oct 2026, 11:02 PM

TechCrunch

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Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat disappears from app stores in India after government order

Bitchat, Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth-mesh messaging app, has been removed from Apple’s App Store and Google Play in India after India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology issued a blocking demand under Section 69A of the IT Act, according to an Apple notice Dorsey posted on X. Apple’s notice said Bitchat remains available outside India but its TestFlight beta is also blocked in the country, and TechCrunch found the app gone from Google Play and its website inaccessible across several Indian ISPs. The takedown follows a July 2026 order to GitHub to remove Bitchat-related repositories, where the government reportedly said the app’s architecture made law-enforcement interception difficult.

Why: For builders who ship global apps or open-source projects, this is a concrete reminder that app stores, TestFlight, GitHub, and even a project website can be blocked per country under local law. If India or similar markets are in scope, check jurisdictional distribution and legal exposure before assuming a global release stays available; for decentralized or offline-first privacy tools, the cited interception concern is a design and regulatory risk, not just an app-store issue.