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  • Christine Lemmer-Webbercwebber@social.coop
    Aug 27, 2026, 3:18 PM

    The US has declared Autistici/Inventati, an Italian anarchist hacker (in the classic sense of the term) collective, a terrorist organization. home.treasury.gov/news/press-r

    But what you really ought to read is this article about A/I's history, and what this means web.archive.org/web/2026082807

    I'm concerned that the US government is starting to identify decentralized media infrastructure as a threat to its survival. Repost information about this broadly, and if you have media contacts, inform them of counter-narratives; there could come a time where the fediverse, or any decentralized network infrastructure, is a target as well if we don't sound the alarms now.

    EDIT: I linked to the wrong page! The second link is now fixed :)

    EDIT 2: A/I's domains have been revoked! So added an archive.org link

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  • Faraiwefaraiwe@mstdn.social
    Aug 27, 2026, 3:28 PM

    @cwebber "People should be able to communicate without first surrendering themselves to corporations or governments."

    Anyone who defies the fascist machinery of surveillance and oppression is an enemy of the Turd Reich.

    It's a badge of honor, of sorts.

    Everyone who values privacy and civil liberties/freedom should perk their ears and heed this case.

    We are all Autistici/Inventati.

    Tante grazie, @cavallette

    #TurdReich #AutisticiInventati #USPol

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  • MaddieM4MaddieM4@raphus.social
    Aug 27, 2026, 3:31 PM

    @cwebber The morally correct thing for these Italian businesses to do is tell the U.S. to piss off, ideally with the words "we don't negotiate with terrorists."

    This is a time for institutions around the world to consider real fucking seriously if they want their participation in U.S. clown-hegemony to be a precedent going forward as we completely descend into a mad fascist cult around a geriatric narcissist.

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  • luna the doggie :neofox_snug: :therian:lunareclipse@snug.moe
    Aug 27, 2026, 4:37 PM

    @MaddieM4 @cwebber the problem is that most European banks are too scared of pissing off the US to not immediately debank you for being sanctioned.

    Now, “As a matter of principle, the EU considers the extra-territorial application of sanctions contrary to international law.”, and     they can just overturn foreign sanctions and prohibit their enforcement, but last time I checked they didn't use this for the Hague ICC judges so I doubt they would use it for anyone else.

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  • luna the doggie :neofox_snug: :therian:lunareclipse@snug.moe
    Aug 27, 2026, 4:41 PM

    @MaddieM4 @cwebber even if the EU intervened, IIUC they will still be banned from almost everything you need to participate in society:
    - google android smartphones
    - apple ios smartphones
    - accounts on FAANG services including basically all mainstream social media

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  • kbalkbal@fedia.io
    Aug 27, 2026, 3:41 PM

    Let them regret making enemies of the many hackers who until now thought of themselves as non-political.

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  • AndresAndres4NY@social.ridetrans.it
    Aug 27, 2026, 8:23 PM

    @cauZation @cwebber I do wonder if we should be focused on creating tor-only fediverse servers (with gateways for non-tor entities to be able to see, but with the servers designed for it to be difficult to find who is hosting them).

    Replace tor with i2p or veilid or your preferred anonymity overlay network.

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  • FoolishOwlfoolishowl@social.coop
    Aug 27, 2026, 5:41 PM

    @Quasit @cwebber I don't know of any as extensive as Autistici/Inventati, but there are a lot of smaller projects that do things like provide a suite of Internet services. Like, I was looking for a Matrix server, and found a lot of such projects that way.

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  • Scale TheorySCALETHEORY@mastodon.social
    Aug 27, 2026, 5:09 PM

    @cwebber

    "there could come a time where the fediverse, or any decentralized network infrastructure, is a target as well if we don't sound the alarms now."

    There will be a time, "I guarantee it" if these overlords aren't stopped, plan on it being very real. They're doing whatever they like acting like a mob with no restraints, as they have NONE.

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  • epiPelagic PuckPuck@sfba.social
    Aug 27, 2026, 5:25 PM

    @cwebber
    This scares the beejeebers out of me. If iwanted to donate bail money to a granny in England who was arrested for protesting the Palestine genocide, I could be arrested for abetting a terrorist? And you can bet they'd make an example of me to scare other people into inaction.

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  • wakest ⁂liaizon@wake.st
    Aug 27, 2026, 5:26 PM

    @cwebber thank you for directly posting about this. I think everyone here really needs to rekon with this situation cause it effects us really deeply.

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  • william ⁂ maggoswjmaggos@liberal.city
    Aug 27, 2026, 5:35 PM

    @cwebber

    decentralized media thwarts the power of money (or force) to shape public opinion. the web gave us speech, fedi does it for attention. of course we're a threat.

    what annoys me is that we're not taking advantage of our power here. most would rather keep their nice but conservative relatives away than grow by focusing moderation only on harassment. we've somehow managed to browse a web full of shitty sites for decades and it didn't become a Nazi bar.

    harrumph.

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  • william ⁂ maggoswjmaggos@liberal.city
    Aug 28, 2026, 8:45 AM

    @jens

    how did the web do it?

    the Nazi bar analogy only works when their presence deters others. with decentralization and a lack of algos, that doesn't happen on the web. it won't happen here either.

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  • william ⁂ maggoswjmaggos@liberal.city
    Aug 28, 2026, 9:07 AM

    @jens

    the vast majority of the web is still not AI shit and while Nazis have always been allowed on the web, it has only been very recently that AI is a problem.

    you're gonna argue that our conservative relatives should never have been allowed to use the same internet we do? that pushing them to instead use a web shared by fascists where our voices were not present would have been better for society?

    the fedi doesn't just moderate harassment. it limits all speech that isn't progressive.

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  • Jens Finkhäuserjens@social.finkhaeuser.de
    Aug 28, 2026, 4:32 PM

    @wjmaggos I would like to introduce you to a bunch of instances I blocked, if you want to know how well "the web" moderates non-progressive views.

    But you have a bone to pick, and from the tone, it's not with me.

    So chill for a week.

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  • djangodjango@social.coop
    Aug 27, 2026, 6:04 PM

    @cwebber fun fact about noblogs.org is that (Wordpress) ActivityPub is one of the few pre-installed plugins.

    So there are likely a good number of blogs already federating with this space

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  • Galadgalad@mastodon.social
    Aug 27, 2026, 6:26 PM

    @cwebber You are correct, their legal strategy is broadly to define all opposition as terrorism. They are attempting to create a narrative that there is an international leftist conspiracy against the USA. It’s a means to then attempt to connect domestic political groups to this international “conspiracy”. That then serves as a pretext to target them with the state apparatus originally designed for the war on terror.

    They’ve been wanting to do something like this since the 1980s.

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  • Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.BoydStephenSmithJr@hachyderm.io
    Aug 28, 2026, 11:46 PM

    @galad @cwebber Even before the 80s. Nixon had enemies in blacks and hippies, but couldn't make either illegal, so they started a propaganda campaign associating blacks with crack and hippies with lsd, and began fear-mongering and cranking up "drug" enforcement.

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  • lieventhisislieven@c.im
    Aug 28, 2026, 11:58 PM

    @galad @cwebber Looking at this from Europe, one thing that has me spooked was Rubio's meeting with 60+ world leaders about all of this. Most names of other leaders have not been made public but there were Europeans too.

    It's extremely scary stuff and spinning completely out of control at rapid speed. And US Congress might as well take a permanent holiday, wouldn't make a difference.

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  • tribactamtribactam@vivaldi.net
    Aug 27, 2026, 7:20 PM

    @notavi10 @cwebber

    the fact that "antifa" is clearly not an identifiable group of people (unlike the nazis) just shows how stupid these people are. You would have thought that with their two brain cells they could have arrived at antifa = short for antifascist.

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  • Juho Mäntysaloiju@mastodon.social
    Aug 28, 2026, 3:46 AM

    @tribactam @notavi10 @cwebber

    Not stupid. Fascist regimes needs an enemy to use as a shorthand for power graps. You may remember how in Animal Farm every step away from egelitarian system was explained by need to stop infiltration by Snowball's¹ spies.

    Meanwhile the regime's continuous efforts to bolster the farm against outside enemies (whi may or may not exist) turns the Farm into a hierarchial structure that doesn't differ in any important way from other farms.

    _
    ¹ a Trotsky expy

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  • Juho Mäntysaloiju@mastodon.social
    Aug 28, 2026, 3:55 AM

    @tribactam @notavi10 @cwebber

    And besides the point, but you may also recall how both film adaptations of Animal Farm swap the ending to something else, thus missing the point.

    The CIA-funded film from 1954 concludes the story by a new revolution to uphold the original ideals.

    The Hallmark film from 1999 shows a return to human-led administration as improvement from corrupt pig-led one (that was admired by neighbouring farms).

    Edit: there's a third one that apparently advocates anarchism.

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  • tribactamtribactam@vivaldi.net
    Aug 28, 2026, 6:35 AM

    @iju @notavi10 @cwebber

    I agree. Maybe calling them stupid is missing the point - they are dangerous idealogues who, as you point out, always need a bogeyman.

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  • Avi :bear_flag: :bisexual_flag: :esperanto: 🟣 🏴notavi10@critter.cafe
    Aug 28, 2026, 8:54 AM

    @iju @tribactam @cwebber fascists use the demarcation of labels like terrorists to make sweeping changes against civil liberties; it is impossible to prove someone is a "member" of antifa because it isnt a things with members. its like how mao called for the excecution of capitalists or pinochet with "leftists" as if they were organized fifth column groups in these countries. all the A/I hackers need to do is stop using the name.

    the goal is to create a chilling effect, but if thr A/I hackers use a different name each time, it becomes a cat and mouse game that the hackers will win

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  • Juho Mäntysaloiju@mastodon.social
    Aug 28, 2026, 11:18 AM

    @notavi10 @tribactam @cwebber

    The point isn't to catch A/I, but to create a cat-and-mouse - game that allows destruction of civil liberties as desired.

    The point of Snowball isn't that they were sending spies to infiltrate the farm, but by claiming they were doing so allowed population manipulation and control.

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  • LukefromDCLukefromDC@kolektiva.social
    Aug 27, 2026, 9:31 PM

    @cwebber Trump has declared war on us, and in any war infrastructure is attacked. They target A/I and European Indymedias while trying to ban encrypted messaging and require ID verification to use communication networks they control.

    We target Flock, Palantir, facial recognition systems, and Cellbrite. We target advertisers on pro-Trump media outlets for boycotts, trying to take down TV and cable sewers like "One AmeriKKKa News" and Faux News. Some of the worst online scum like Andy Ngo, LibsofTiktok, and Kiki Farms face our special attention.

    This is how it is in war, conventional or otherwise. Like any other war, the tides ebb and flow, first one side has an advantage and then the other.

    We must defend our own assets while taking down those of the enemy. We have defense, and we have offense. Defense keeps us from losing, offense is what makes it possible to win.

    Defense and solidarity will keep A/I and Noblogs up, no cooperation from US anything needed. US ISPs may block them, but Tor and non-US VPNs will blow through those blockades like a column of tanks through a border wall.

    An attack on one is an attack on all, now more than ever we must stand with A/I.

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  • MolotovBeaverMolotovBeaver@mastodon.social
    Aug 27, 2026, 9:41 PM

    @cwebber God forbid we don't suck the cock of big tech(TM), our grand overlords ruling with an iron boot of ads, firmly planted in our faces 24/7.

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  • Regendansregendans@todon.eu
    Aug 27, 2026, 10:09 PM

    Folks, how about creating a wiki or blog page where all the links can be put for other websites, magazines, news outlets who posted in solidarity ?

    :ablobcatbongo:

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  • Tomasz W. Kozłowskitwkozlowski@mastodon.social
    Aug 27, 2026, 11:46 PM

    @cwebber Thanks for sharing the news. I tried to donate to A/I about 12 hours ago via Liberapay, but their payment processor PayPal wouldn’t allow me to send money without creating an account, which I was not willing to do.

    I tried again just now—and PayPal have locked A/I’s account. I hope no money of theirs got frozen. Let’s hope the Italian banking system is beyond the U.S. government’s reach for now and SEPA transfers still work.

    Screenshot of an English-language error message indicating PayPal have locked or closed the account of Collettivo Autistici / Inventati in line with United States government sanctions against the organisation.
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  • Juho Mäntysaloiju@mastodon.social
    Aug 28, 2026, 4:00 AM

    @RevSPLR @cwebber

    Remember that the problems of USSR in the 1970s was due to need to find premiers who had taken part in the revolution. As the revolution was ever-more in the past, the premiers started to suffer from problems of old age, including dementia.

    I'm not sure could we call them "evil" though, as it casts USA as "good". This being the regime that at the time massacred kids in Vietnam, couped democratic polities, etc.

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  • RevSPLRRevSPLR@dobbs.town
    Aug 30, 2026, 1:19 PM

    @iju Hei you’re a Finn, I’m a Finn! Do you remember the SKDL?

    Image attached toot
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  • Juho Mäntysaloiju@mastodon.social
    Aug 30, 2026, 1:54 PM

    @RevSPLR

    I'm a bit too young to remember when it was still carrying that name, but I'm a card-carrying member of its successor organisation.

    They were the only political party in Finland to oppose the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, and have been on the "right side of history" ever since.

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