Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey

Re:Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat a... by ecshafer on Friday July 24, 2026 @12:36PM (#49038124)

How many people has the US sent to jail due to saying naughty things on Twitter vs the UK? If were going to speak of authoritarianism. Just due to ensuring free speech and right to bear arms the US is possibly the least authoritarian developed nation outside of maybe Switzerland.

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Re:Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat a... by lava_pidgeon on Friday July 24, 2026 @01:45PM (#49039221)

The US government killed two people protesting against their migration policy. Oh boy, MAGA is deep into America. Thanks for reminding me.

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Re:Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat a... by ted_dunning on Friday July 24, 2026 @02:38PM (#49039894)

Alex Pretti would like a word.

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Re:Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat a... by ecshafer on Saturday July 25, 2026 @09:20AM (#49047376)

Henry Nowak would as well.

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Re:Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat a... by mdgld on Saturday July 25, 2026 @01:44AM (#49044850)

This is 100% not true. On multiple measures of freedom the US scores around the 75th percentile if I remember correctly; I believe the category is something like “flawed democracy” on the economist’s democracy index, and that’s not even an publication that I particularly like. It’s not even in the top 30.

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