Social Media: the Government Was Preparing to Block Them as Bitchat Takes Off in France

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Two days before the October 24 demonstrations, Sébastien Lecornu allegedly asked the four main French telecommunications operators to prepare for a possible suspension of TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and X. The planned mechanism relied on DNS filtering, but the operators reportedly expressed serious concerns about its technical feasibility and legality. No shutdown ultimately took place, despite a turnout estimated at between 410,000 and 800,000 people. Initiated by Jack Dorsey, Bitchat ranked first in the social networking category of the French App Store on October 22 and then became the leading free application the following day, driven by download campaigns and the Orange mobile network outage.

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