Bitchat pulled from India's App Store and Google Play

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Bitchat, the offline messaging app backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has been removed from Apple's App Store and Google Play in India after a government order. India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology issued the order under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, TechCrunch reports. The app's website is also blocked by Indian internet providers. It is the second action against Bitchat in India, after GitHub was told to take down its code in July. Bitchat lets phones send encrypted messages to each other over Bluetooth, with no internet, mobile network or centra

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