A few days ago, the U.S. government sanctioned A/I for supporting “extreme far-left antifa terrorists”. If you didn’t know, A/I is an antifascist and anticapitalist group based in Italy, and they host a lot of services (like email, website hosting, etc.) run through donations. Their policy states that they are against racism, sexism, militarism, homophobia, and transphobia, and you have to agree to those principles to use their services. Their website and mailing server has been taken down, and unfortunately, that also means my email no longer works. It’s kind of insane how quickly the American government can take down internet services they don’t like. A/I has denied all of the allegations by the Trump admin, and rightfully so, they’re just a digital services provider who respect your privacy and are against fascism and bigotry.
relevant link if you want to read more about this: https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076
I still need to use email, so what’s a good alternative email provider that doesn’t profit off of my data? I have used Disroot in the past and had good experiences with their services, so they are currently my fallback. I have ruled out Proton and Tuta, as neither support IMAP properly.
I use tuta personally. It’s free and no bs
This is an absolutely fantastic read about the history of A/I for anyone unfamiliar
The precedent also reaches beyond explicitly anarchist or antifascist projects. If political alignment with users, privacy protections and the hosting of controversial publications can be assembled into a case that infrastructure itself constitutes support, then encrypted mail providers, radical publishers, community archives, VPNs, federated social networks, legal-support projects and other independent hosts all have reason to pay attention
RiseUp, MayFirst, and Tutanota come to mind
Iirc AI designed their systems to be decentralized
They’re Italian and run servers all over the world outside the jurisdiction of the US executive branch.
If they’re down, I assume it’s temporary. Anyway, noblogs had a list of other tech collectives on their website. You can surely load it on way back machine
If you declare an antifascist organization as terrorism you are outing yourself, mate.
The Trump regime is proud of that. They are happy to do all the signalling that they are full blown fascists short of admitting directly to it. That way there’s enough “reasonable doubt” that they can sell their snake oil to idiots.
You are infantilizing the fascist underbelly that supports trump.
The “reasonable doubt” isn’t to confuse “idiots”. These “idiots” see through it just like you. The “reasonable doubt” is to give the “idiots” cover against their neighbors, friends, and family.
They know very well what they are voting for, but they are cowards. All fascists are cowards. They will not fight unless they have overwhelming advantage.
Their ideologies stem from deep fear, better described as a life enveloping terror, of everything. For the fascist to feel safe, all things must be dominated or destroyed.
How many children would still see their trump voting parents if the parents said openly “I voted for trump because he is going to kill the people I don’t like”? How many who still see that family member now, wouldn’t under those conditions?
How about last term? How many would have left that person in 2016?
How many neighbors would live next to a person who openly calls for genocide in the neighborhood?
The “reasonable doubt” is cover for these hateful, destructive people. It does not confuse them. They know what they are doing.
Oh for certain. There’s two cohorts of people here:
The first is a large subset of the population (around 30% at a guess) who, much like Stephen Miller, are afraid of their own shadows and wish to exterminate anything that casts one. For them, the reasonable doubt is purely a facade. They know they are Nazis, they just won’t admit it publicly (but even that social veil has started to crumble)
The second cohort is the portion of the population who is largely unaffected by or uninterrested in politics. Here, reasonable doubt is among the tactics employed by the Nazis to make them look away, allowing them to maintain control. For the most part, these are the “both siders” who prefer a false peace through inaction, or the “apoliticals” who don’t understand what machine Pink Floyd and RAtM sing about.
If you ask me, both groups are idiots. They’re powerful idiots but nevertheless they’re the lowest percentile that humanity has to offer.
They are trying really, really hard to pretend they are happy to do that, but the fact that none of their smiles actually look happy could be considered evidence for a lack of happiness.
I’m antifascist, I want the death of all Indians (sorry Indians), I want to create a totalitarian regime ruled by complete degenerated person and I’m actively pursuing my goals. If you oppose me, it means you are a fascist.
Those aren’t my views. I wanted to show that calling yourself antifascist doesn’t mean everyone who is against you is fascist.
Fascism is the desire for a totalitarian state where (in general) the population must put the state first above everything. Let’s see here:
I want to create a totalitarian regime ruled by complete degenerated person and I’m actively pursuing my goals.
Well, that sounds pretty fascist to me. Did you mix the two words up?
I think you missed my point
A/I is not calling for the death of any people group, and they are against racism and bigotry of all forms.
Yes, giving yourself a label doesn’t necessarily mean it’s correct. North Korea calla itself a Democratic People’s Republic, when in reality it’s closer to a dictatorial monarchy mixed with bits of Marxism. But if we disregarded all labels that could be misused, we would have none at all!
Also, what the hell man, calling for the death of all Indians as an “example” is not a good look. It doesn’t bode well for whar you actually believe in if you think this is a reasonable example to bring up.
Fascist never liked criticism.
Any country that uses the dollar is seen by the American government as subordinate to them. They will use that to pursue political goals.
It’s really BS how they’re considered a “terrorist group” while real terrorist groups like the IDF continue killing innocent people
Do they accept monero donations?
It looks like they only accept direct transfer and credit card. They do not accept Bitcoin (or any other cryptocurrency), they have a blog article about why on their donation page if you are interested.
Crédit card might complicated then…
They will be back. This is trivial to fix.
But if you really want an alternative, disroot is great.
[A/I] are against fascism and bigotry.
There you have it, that’s the definition of terrorism in America in 2026
Real “YOU’RE the puppet” level stuff.
Wtf…they are putting these guys in the same bin as daesh and alqaeda…terrorism means nothing anymore. (probably the actual terrorists feel insulted)
Since the UK regime designated Palestine Action a terror group the average arrested terrorist is now a 60 year old white woman.
The amount of repression going on is insane
it is not the same
It’s been like that since the start of the war on terror. The US can label anyone (including US citizens) they want as a terrorist and kill them and their family despite no due process.
Because they’re fascists
They put all transgender people in the same bin. They’re straight up Nazis, words only mean whatever is most convenient to them.
Mailboxes are being migrated, you should be able to download it. https://mastodon.bida.im/@cavallette/117173281325105884
I will keep that in mine, thanks!
Their domain got taken down, not their services.
Functionally equivalent most of the time, especially with some services like email even if your servers are running it doesn’t really matter if neither users nor senders can reach them. Do you remember the IP address of your IMAP server by heart?
In any case, this is not just a DNS censor, it’s the full hammer of US “terror”-based sanctions. Their bank accounts are being frozen as Italian banks must comply, they can’t get certificates, hosting contracts with most of the world, and so on. It’s bad
I mean, the fucking way SSL falls over in that case, you can hardly blame anyone.
autistici.org is down in the EU, their domain name does not exist anymore. how did they do that? surely they didn’t use a USA based registrar.
inventati.org seems to be up for now
It’s kind of insane how much control the U.S. has over everything
https://mastodon.bida.im/@cavallette/117172989300228024
@bohwaz @cavallette for once it isn’t Gandi. The .org registry is operated by a US business, who as a result of the sanctions can’t do business with them (autistici)
this is insane and absolutely unacceptable. I guess this is the end of .org and such being a good choice for a domin name. if the operator is not willing to fall in line with the openly fascist USA, they can and will just take you down too
was there at least any legal procedure through Italian courts? or did they just decide to single handedly censor a whole organization?
I imagine it’s the latter, I can’t find anything relating to the Italian government participating in this online
.org is administered by Identity Digital and they are obligated to comply with terror sanctions. The US is embedded at virtually every level of the internet infrastructure and with the magic weapon of “sanctions” can force almost everyone else from providing services to any entity
both domains seem to be registered with gandi.net, so it’s interesting only one of them got taken down
