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Consequence of US sanctions: Internet collective Autistici/Inventati ceases operations
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Less than two weeks after the US government declared the Italian internet collective Autistici/Inventati a terrorist threat, the activists are shutting down their free online services. Users should act quickly and secure their data.
The Italian internet collective Autistici/Inventati (A/I) is closing down. All online services will be suspended in the next few days, the collective announced yesterday.
“We stop, but the resistance and ideas don’t stop,” reads onehttps://keepitfree.ai/announcements/a/i-shuts-down-stay-human/">Explanationfermentation of A/I. "Now turn off your PCs, leave your homes, fight, hug each other and keep smiling. Stay human."
At the end of August the USA had thishttps://netzpolitik.org/2026/autistici-inventati-usa-sanktionieren-itali...Collectively classified as “Global Terrorists”.and at the same time withhttps://netzpolitik.org/2026/autistici-inventati-pauschaler-terrorvorwur...Sanctions proven. US-based payment service providers such as PayPal then closed the accounts of the donation-financed project. Domains were lost, and even hershttps://keepitfree.ai/announcements/banca-etica-shuts-down-a/i-funds/">i...Bank canceled her accountto avoid possible secondary sanctions.
“We have no choice”
The collective has represented left-wing groups and people for around 25 yearshttps://netzpolitik.org/2017/10-jahre-kaos-unabhaengige-architektur-in...digital infrastructure readyand hosted thousands of email accounts, blogs and websites. From the USA's perspective, it provided material support to left-wing extremist groups worldwide. Autistici/Inventati shows thishttps://keepitfree.ai/announcements/press-release/">Prevthrow back.
You have a responsibility towards your users and ultimately have no choice, is how the collective explains the discontinuation of the services. It is feared that even a loose connection to A/I could have legal and financial consequences. “We cannot engage in a struggle or subject ourselves to manipulations that endanger the lives of these people and their loved ones and hand them over to autocrats, fascists and authorities who act outside the rule of law.”
The classification of the left-wing collective as “terrorists” by the Trump administration is a further twist in the escalation spiral. Last year, the right-wing US president explained the nebulous generic termhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/designating-anti...“Antifa” a terrorist threat.
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Attacks on left-wing groups
This was followed by sanctions against undesirable left-wing groups around the world, including thehttps://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/ Amerika/usa-trump-ost-antifa-terror-10...“Antifa East”. Here too, the environment suffered part of the damage: two banks terminated their contractshttps://rote-hilfe.de/melden/kontokuendigung-wegen-antifa-banken-voll...the left-wing solidarity organization Rote Hilfe, presumably as a result of US sanctions.
Whether such sanctions and the resulting consequential damages are legal in this form,https://icct.nl/publication/it-cant-happen-here-designating-antifa-terro...many experts. In the case of the Reds, help is now arrivinghttps://rote-hilfe.de/melden/rote-hilfe-reichen-hauptsacheverfahren-ge..., which is intended to clarify the legality of the drastic measures in court. It is currently unclear whether Autistici/Inventati will also go to court.
Now it’s all about ensuring the safety of A/I users. The collective will soon provide instructions on how to secure data from email inboxes, websites and blogs, the collective announced in its statement.
However, the clock is ticking: the fate of the domain autistici.org, which became inaccessible overnight, could also threaten other domains in the collective: “Similar problems could arise in the next few days, which we may not be able to foresee.”
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