There's that other Bluetooth mesh app that came out before Bitchat. Probably doesn't dox your location either.
I don't remember what it was called.
I want to think bitchat is on the up and up. But why does it need location permissions?
Naggingly I remember that Twitter and Facebook was heavily used in the Arab spring.... Which was probably not organic.... Shall we say. Looking back with hindsight
Something about how it's simultaneously both banned and promoted.......
Since state aligned agitators use it , its getting officially (lightly) slapped down.
But if non state sanctioned agitators (akin to jan6ers) utilized the same app .... Idk.... I feel it would be getting more of the tiktok or samurai wallet treatment ...
Bitchat is a great idea, but ..,... This lurks in the back of my mind when it wants location permissions. And maybe someone can make the case that a ble only permission is functionally just the same privacy risks.
Naggingly I remember that Twitter and Facebook was heavily used in the Arab spring.... Which was probably not organic.... Shall we say. Looking back with hindsight
Something about how it's simultaneously both banned and promoted.......
Since state aligned agitators use it , its getting officially (lightly) slapped down.
But if non state sanctioned agitators (akin to jan6ers) utilized the same app .... Idk.... I feel it would be getting more of the tiktok or samurai wallet treatment ...
Bitchat is a great idea, but ..,... This lurks in the back of my mind when it wants location permissions. And maybe someone can make the case that a ble only permission is functionally just the same privacy risks.
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