cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/9478408
Sep 6, 2026
The day we discovered we had been designated a global terrorist organization, we promised that we would try to resist as long as this was possible, that we would not back down as long as we could see options to stand our ground. For years, we have proudly maintained and defended a free, privacy-friendly, autonomous and politically committed infrastructure.
“Stay human” is not an empty phrase to us.
It means, above all, that we have a responsibility to protect our users, those who build the human networks we rely, and for the communities who flooded us with messages of support and solidarity.
We cannot engage in a fight or expose ourselves to manipulations that threaten the lives of these people and their loved ones, leaving them at the mercy of autocrats, fascists and agencies that take extra-legal courses of action. The possibility that our work may cause legal and financial consequences to those who are close to us - or even only have something to do with us - leaves us no choice.
A/I is shutting down. The Autistici/Inventati collective is shutting down and will soon discontinue all of the services we provide.
Fuck America
What services did they provide?
They gave free email addresses to anyone who said that they are communist. Like 10 years ago, I wrote them a paragraph saying that I am Marxist and they gave me a free email address, though a I stopped using that email address a while back.
They also offered free blog hosting and some other stuff.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260826221022/https://www.autistici.org/services/
This really sucks. Like they have been dealing with bullshit from their local fascists for decades but then the Americans hear about them one day and just pull the plug. Both on their bank accounts and their internet domains.
All European financial institutions relying on American companies has come up a few times before like with the Rote Hilfe or the Anarchist Black Cross or WikiLeaks.
The IANA being an American institutions has so far only been a theoretical problem to my knowledge.
