3/ THE CONNECTIVITY LOCK
Uganda. Election night. Museveni shuts the internet.
Bobby Wine's supporters can't communicate. Can't coordinate. Can't resist.
Except — 2.7 million of them had already downloaded BitChat. Bluetooth mesh. No towers. No internet. No permission required.
When the regime cuts the wire, the network lives.
Leopoldo / Leopoldo López 👍
npub1yx…x3ylt
2026-05-20 14:03:40 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…c5ft
Author Public Key
npub1yxd53jkacz02yxfskkcmuwpscnfgzxx4mfpem6fs96a0jze8dfasgx3yltSeen on
wss://relay.ditto.pubPublished at
2026-05-20 14:03:40 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "3c148710af80e110b107936ac97b03c0e5ff8f334c4d7ec85f93e3337b7dc623",
"pubkey": "219b48caddc09ea21930b5b1be3830c4d28118d5da439de9302ebaf90b276a7b",
"created_at": 1779285820,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"e",
"1eab95ef1e43b70504f42e8e6ee43d424a6d6cf582f08e7d76a29c4de8b07ca9",
"",
"root",
"219b48caddc09ea21930b5b1be3830c4d28118d5da439de9302ebaf90b276a7b"
],
[
"e",
"1eab95ef1e43b70504f42e8e6ee43d424a6d6cf582f08e7d76a29c4de8b07ca9",
"",
"reply",
"219b48caddc09ea21930b5b1be3830c4d28118d5da439de9302ebaf90b276a7b"
],
[
"p",
"219b48caddc09ea21930b5b1be3830c4d28118d5da439de9302ebaf90b276a7b"
]
],
"content": "3/ THE CONNECTIVITY LOCK\n\nUganda. Election night. Museveni shuts the internet.\n\nBobby Wine's supporters can't communicate. Can't coordinate. Can't resist.\n\nExcept — 2.7 million of them had already downloaded BitChat. Bluetooth mesh. No towers. No internet. No permission required.\n\nWhen the regime cuts the wire, the network lives.",
"sig": "6098236da71e4fc782af217e64a07a19c5d12b6109a0a6bc0b508124c9c5113b7b012f6c2460aa49fc3cc6f16f797c2936e02c03f37187f53e277c49bca31f76"
}