Italian tech collective to shut down after US terrorist designation
Italian technology collective Autistici/Inventati (A/I) said on Sunday it would shut down its services after a U.S. terrorism designation led to the suspension of its .org domain and the closure of its bank account.
The volunteer-run provider, founded in 2001, offers privacy-focused email, websites, mailing lists and blogging services to activists, campaigners and others seeking alternatives to commercial platforms.
This is why EU needs financial and tech sovereignty.
This is how it works. All they have to do is but you on that list and the whole US-linked and dollar-linked system takes you out of the economy.
The fact that Banca Etica did this despite being otherwise very much good in their track record is nothing short of stupid.
Not sure how it’s stupid, banks have to follow the law. Yes it’s a stupid law, but that’s an issue for the national govt and the EU to address. The rule of law is one of the things that distinguishes us from the barbarians in the Trump admnistration.
What needs to be done is European withdrawal from these treaties. If the US wants to try sanctioning the entire western world it will get interesting.
they did so much good. this is sad.
This is so bad. After blackblogs’ closure, is there any free wordpress hosting service left for left-wing projects? Where to move noblogs.org blogs?
I hate this so much
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Without a bank account and domain name?
And they are also being targeted by US sponsored hackers so it’s impossibile to keep services up this way. I hope this is a wake up call for someone but I don’t think so.
Sure… a call for our corrupt politicians to increase their prices because it again became a bit harder to sell us out without affecting public opinion. Not that they actually care about the latter, but getting reelected means getting paid by their actual employers longer.
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It doesn’t really matter if the registrar is .eu, .de or whatever. If US really wants to fuck you they are just gonna knock on ICANN door. As far as I know there is no escaping ICANN, that’s still at the top of every domain, period.
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“We” as in Europeans? Or “we” as in the corrupt politicians with actual power? Not the same group of people, definitely not the same agenda.
Has the US ever done so? I don’t think that’s a real risk. Or rather, it’s not any higher than the US threatening to nuke Italy unless the organization is disbanded.
I see what you did there.
Thousands of people would need to switch their website urls and email addresses. At that point its pointless for people to stay with them. Easier to make a clean fresh start.
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