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No Justice No Peace
When Corrupt Politicians Start Going To Jail,
Then We Can Start Trusting The Government Again.
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Tech Defeats Dictators
Translated from Portuguese
JACK DORSEY JUST CREATED A PROBLEM FOR EVERY DICTATOR IN THE WORLD
And the first test is in 7 days.
In Uganda. The country goes to the polls on the 15th.
Museveni has been in power since 1986. In every election, he cuts the internet. Literally every time.
→ 2016: total blackout
→ 2021: 4 days offline during voting
The opposition can’t coordinate, verify votes, document anything
Then came Bitchat.
400,000 Ugandans downloaded the app in one week.
1% of the population.
The app uses Bluetooth mesh. Messages hop from phone to phone. No internet. No server. No tower.
The telecom regulator went on TV to say they have “the highest concentration of software engineers in the country” to block the app.
The developer responded on X:
“You can’t stop Bitchat. You can’t stop us. Free and open source. Unstoppable.”
He’s technically correct.
To block Bitchat, the government would have to turn off Bluetooth on every phone in the country. Or confiscate the devices. Or prohibit Ugandans from being within 100 meters of each other.
The regime ordered Starlink to suspend operations. Satellite control. Fiber control. Tower control.
None of that controls Bluetooth.
40 years of investment in censorship.
Defeated by short-range radio waves that have existed since 1994.
And Bitchat still sends offline Bitcoin transactions.
Bobi Wine, opposition leader, asked the population to download it before the blackout. This time they’ll go into the dark armed.
January 15.
If Bitchat defeats Museveni, every dictator in the world wakes up with a new problem.