India, Aug. 8 -- In his famous essay, On Bullshit, philosopher Harry Frankfurt wrote that the "essence of bullshit" is a "phony" statement that is "disconnected from a concern with the truth". It comes from a person who simply does not care what is true or false but wants only to posture. Such flippancy, Frankfurt argued, makes it "a greater enemy of the truth than lies are".

A notable sample of the same was served up by Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and former CEO of Twitter, who took to X to complain when, in the midst of a student protest in Central Delhi, the government ordered GitHub to block access to Bitchat, an app that he designed to allow users to communicate over a "mesh" of Bluetooth connections and thereby evade government con...