Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation
Autistici/Inventati, an Italian collective providing privacy-focused communication tools, lost its main domain autistici.org and mail server mail.autistici.org, making all mailboxes unreachable. The outage follows a US terrorism designation. The collective is working on instructions for users to regain email access.
Some hours ago the domain autistici.org became unreachable.
- asveikau
I had no idea what this is, Google said:
> Autistici/Inventati provides internet support to activists and collectives coming from the world of grassroot and social movements.
US administration says:
> https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616
> ... an Italy-based entity that supplies specialized digital architecture, tools, and services for Antifa cells and other violent far-left extremists ...
- swed420
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- judiisis
basically they provide self hosted foss encrypted services which the US Govt didnt like https://www.inventati.org/services/
- nazgulsenpai
We are still living in the shadow of the world the Patriot Act created and continues to shape.
The most consequential legislation of my lifetime.
- RobotToaster
What do we do now it's becoming clear that ICANN can't be trusted?
- K0balt
lol. In case you didn’t notice, dissent is terrorism, failure to kiss the ring is treason, and if you want to play in the US market there are some cryptocurrency purchases you might want to do, as a hedge against unfavorable tariffs. Also, for only 100KUSD you can join the official US insider trading chat.
I wish any of this was an exaggeration.
- poetaster
Is it just dark on the NA side if the pond? I still see it just fine...
- mikojan
Everybody and their grandmother uses their services. Are you organizing a non-profit rehearsal space? Create a mailing list there.
This is grim.
I guess this only works because those are foreign servers so freedom of speech does not apply but Italy is doing their bidding?