Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet

Re:Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet by howmayiannoyyou on Friday November 14, 2025 @02:37PM (#45931150)

How will they prevent the application from being used by Hamas and PIJ for repressing ordinary Palestinians, and for coordinating more attacks against Israeli civilians?

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Re:Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet by HumblyTossed on Friday November 14, 2025 @02:53PM (#45931385)

Is it their job to do that?

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Re:Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet by JumpCrisscross on Friday November 14, 2025 @03:38PM (#45931893)

> Is it their job to do that?

Not that. But it should be someone’s job to monitor if Hamas adopts it.

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Re:Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet by HumblyTossed on Friday November 14, 2025 @04:37PM (#45932485)

That is an external problem to the bitchat app.

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Re:Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet by JumpCrisscross on Friday November 14, 2025 @04:48PM (#45932579)

> That is an external problem to the bitchat app

Not really. If it becomes a tool of terrorist communication, it will get shut down. Legally, technically and/or kinetically.

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Re:Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet by BeetleB on Friday November 14, 2025 @05:17PM (#45932818)

> If it becomes a tool of terrorist communication, it will get shut down.

You mean like how they shut down cell phone networks?

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Re:Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet by wahnfrieden on Friday November 14, 2025 @03:04PM (#45931525)

How do Google and Microsoft prevent their tech from being used toward genocidal/settler ends against civilians?

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Re:Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet by js212 on Friday November 14, 2025 @03:27PM (#45931793)

Umm they don’t sell to Hamas but I could be wrong.

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Re:Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet by jeromegv on Friday November 14, 2025 @04:31PM (#45932436)

They do sell to Israel, which uses the tech to commit mass-atrocities against civilians.

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Re:Bitchat for Gaza – messaging without internet by sa501428 on Friday November 14, 2025 @04:58PM (#45932666)

The primary threat to Palestinian civilians in Gaza remains the IDF. And in the West Bank, it's the Israeli settlers.

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