“The decentralized architecture of the app means that there is no central server or database and therefore there cannot be a central kill switch.”
India gave GitHub three hours to geoblock three Bitchat repositories. That is the first known order to censor an open-source repo, and it came from a government that leads the world in internet shutdowns. Bluetooth mesh apps route around the shutdown, so the state went after the source code instead. The takedown notice is what made the app news outside India in the first place.