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United States sanctions Autistici/Inventati for supporting far-left terrorism (cryptobriefing.com)
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[–] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Heckssake, I used to have an email with them before I could afford self-hosting mine. And I'm surprised to see that... (squints notes)... a group fighting against racism and fascism is considered terrorist enough by the States to warrant a full economic sanction. Okay, maybe not that surprised, but the mask of the Confederates is quickly going off

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Not only the US. The right-wing politicians in my western European country hopped on that 'antifa=terrorism' bandwagon pretty quickly to put a bunch of climate activists on the terrorist watch list.

[–] thewal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Environmental activists has been targeted for a while already and governments doesn't seem to care about the use of their police to crack down on them so hence accomplices.

The only major news media i have seen cover the topic more broadly recently was from Deutsche Welle: Why are environmental protesters being criminalized? (which is from 2025)

Whenever someone is sharing news about them on unmoderated social media a lot of far-right try shaming them

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sure, there were lots of comments already from the politicians. Still I found it striking that the terrorism list news arrived around the same time as the antifa stories. As if they finally had a good excuse.

[–] thewal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I was just commenting on how environmental activists the government never cares on cracking down with police forces and it seems a topic major news media seem to avoid covering broadly

From a comment in a different instance technology community ( @technology@piefed.social ):

@XLE@piefed.social comment:

As the article appears to be AI-assisted and isn't clear about their source (despite alleging they have high editorial standards), here it is:

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616

Some passages I found relevant:

As outlined in OFAC’s FAQ 1190, the United States does not sanction persons for engaging in political speech or other constitutionally protected activities. As outlined in E.O. 13224 of September 23, 2001, however, “violent acts and acts dangerous to human life, property, or infrastructure, that appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, or to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion” are defined as terrorism.

In 2001, we decided "the appearance of coercion to change government policy" was terrorism. That checks out.

Autistici Inventati identifies itself as an “anti-fascist” and “anti-militarist” organization opposed to capitalism and exclusively provides its services to vetted individuals, collectives, and groups it perceives to be aligned with its ideology

Can terrorism even be terrorism without militarism? Oh right, coercion. My bad.

Oregon-based Rose City Antifa has relied on A/I Collective tools and services to organize and incite violent and criminal acts domestically, including an attack on Customs and Border Patrol helicopters that led to a federal indictment. Rose City Antifa also used A/I Collective tools and services to disseminate doxing lists and release illegally obtained personal information of Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with calls for targeted attacks on ICE agents in the streets and “in their homes.”

Seriously, what are they talking about regarding the helicopter thing and the alleged "calls" - the only reference to helicopters I can find is an alleged flyer that's now locked behind a Twitter wall. It's not on Wikipedia.

[–] thewal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

Statement from Autistici/Inventati

[ENGLISH VERSION]

Today we were made aware that the US Government has targeted a small, volunteer-run, technology collective from Italy with disproportionate sanctions as anyone can read in the Treasury Department Statement, the State Department Statement and the related Executive Order.

We deny all allegations included in the statements, while we strongly affirm our dedication to providing a platform of tools for digital self-defense, addressing the need of free communication for activists and other individuals, groups and associations.

We will not back down, we will keep doing what we have been doing all these years and we will do whatever is in our possibility to counter the false allegations made by a politically desperate administration with the sole intention of swaying people and media attention away from their own violence and warmongering.

Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism. Protesting is not terrorism. And everyone has the right to speak out and to struggle for humanity.

Collettivo Autistici / Inventati — “Socializzare saperi senza fondare poteri”

Stay human

posted on August 26 2026

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