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  • seems like PIR (the .org registry) now also suspended their main domain: https://www.whois.com/whois/autistici.org (it is on serverHold)
  • Actual link: https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076

    Title: A Statement by A/I Collective About US Sanctions

  • For those like me who don't have context, here is the New York Times article on this recent news / event

    https://archive.fo/e8Gss

    > The State Department on Wednesday designated three groups based in Europe, including two that advocate Palestinian rights, as transnational terrorist organizations.

    > The move is part of the Trump administration’s fight against what it calls a “resurgence of far-left political terrorism” worldwide, a focus that many security experts say is disproportionate.

    > In a statement, the department said that it would impose sanctions on Palestine Action, which is based in Britain and organizes acts of support for Palestinians and opposition to Israeli policies; Masar Badil, another pro-Palestinian group with branches in Western Europe and Canada; and Autistici/Inventati, known as A/I Collective, which is based in Italy and offers free digital tools to leftist activists around the world.

    a/I collective in the OP is the third on this list.

    > based in Italy and offers free digital tools to leftist activists around the world

  • Could the persons that mention the PKK all over this thread kindly find links now that noblogs.org is partly dysfunctional and autistici.org is down?

    Google Search yields a very small amount of third party support for the PKK, all unreachable now.

    I cannot find any evidence at all and neither can LLMs that this organization has ever directly supported the PKK or hosted a PKK website.

  • There is also an article on we will free us [1] if you want to dive deeper into that rabbit hole.

    [1] https://www.wewillfreeus.org/the-server-called-paranoia-defe...

  • I clicked around a bit, read the manifesto, I still have no idea what these people do. I guess they claim to have been around for a while, but a bunch of the links don't work and the manifesto has definitely been updated to reflect 2026 opinions.

    What is this?

  • > Only months after Paranoia [their first server] went online, the G8 came to Genoa. Many A/I participants were also involved with Indymedia Italy. They helped construct the movement’s media center, laying cables, configuring servers and building workstations through which protesters could report what was happening across the city. What followed was historic: enormous demonstrations, the police killing of Carlo Giuliani, indiscriminate beatings in the streets, torture and abuse inside the Bolzaneto barracks and the nighttime raid on the Diaz school. Official narratives competed with photographs, recordings and firsthand testimony transmitted through independent infrastructure. Genoa became one of the earliest major demonstrations to be documented from nearly every direction by its participants rather than exclusively through institutional media.

    https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10083/2

    Very curious. My latest submission is the video of Larry Ellison with the "The police will be on their best behavior[,] Citizens will be on their best behavior because we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on". (It was triggered by a piece on TheOnion.)

    Turns out, other people had been recording events, so that a covering narrative may not prevail over the truth.

  • Everyone’s missing the big picture here which is that this targeting of infrastructure providers as “terrorists” is unprecedented and concerning: https://decode39.com/16319/autistici-inventati-case-sets-a-n...

    If a radical group sets up shop on I2P, are I2P users and devs now terrorists? This is a problem.

    What about Monero users/devs? Veilid? Tox? Signal?

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