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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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