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- 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.
by K0balt - What do we do now it's becoming clear that ICANN can't be trusted?by RobotToaster
- 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?
by mikojan - 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.
by nazgulsenpai - basically they provide self hosted foss encrypted services which the US Govt didnt like https://www.inventati.org/services/by judiisis
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U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49477854
US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451343
US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist"
by swed420 - This is much bigger than the banning of a volunteer webhost.
It shows the US government won't go through usual channels when Europeans do things that under european law, are probably¹ allowed.
It shows, again, that US infrastructure is unreliable (in a non-technical sense) and is everywhere.
An Italian bank "sacrificed" their customer because of the risk of losing access to Visa/USD network for international payments. The I in ICANN is not. It is US. Etc.
¹maybe they did break laws. In which case the US would usually ask Italy to deal with it. But either the US government decided this is too much hassle, or they knew Italy wasn't going to help, because under Italian law, everything was fine: we'll never know. But we do know that the US government will reach into European countries to stop NGOs operating there.
by berkes - 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 ...
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