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(en) Italy, FA: Solidarity with Autistic/Invented People (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]
Date
Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:44:15 +0300
On Wednesday, August 26, 2026, the U.S. government placed
Autistic/Invented on a list of "global terrorist organizations." ---
Autistici/Inventati is a collective that has been providing free, secure
computer communications to activists around the world for 25 years. ---
The US government's decision is an attempt to escalate the increasingly
authoritarian Washington administration's declared war on social
movements to an international level. It's not a symbolic move, but a
direct attack on a medium used daily by tens of thousands of people to
protect their communications from the scrutiny of various spy agencies,
political profiling agencies, and commercial firms.
The measure affects all movements: websites, mailing lists, group blogs,
collectives, etc. are partially out of order.
Unable to technically attack Autistici/Inventati's infrastructure, the
US government has decided to use sanctions to block economic relations
with the collective. This means they are unable to receive donations,
and A/I relies on donations and subscriptions, but also cannot register
domains, rent or buy servers, and perform all the technical operations
required to operate internet services. It should not be overlooked that
many activist groups based in the US use A/I's services in their fight
against the US government.
The Trump administration has faced a strong and widespread popular
backlash over the past year, characterized by direct action against the
increase in ICE raids targeting undocumented workers.
The MAGA administration is preparing to launch a crackdown on abortion,
has harshly attacked the living conditions of LGBTQ+ people, and has
mandated federal prosecutors to prosecute those who oppose the
deportation campaign. It is attempting to impose climate change denial
as state doctrine. The US government is implementing, step by step, a
new witch hunt worthy of the sad memory of McCarthy and Thayer.
We're not surprised: the ruling class must demonstrate its iron fist
against anyone who dares challenge its attempt to regiment society into
new authoritarian systems that eliminate any opposition to a social
organization rooted in capitalist and patriarchal logic. The wave of
struggles that have marked recent months could soon be repeated: bosses
and gendarmes are afraid, and for this reason they are preemptively
attacking the critical communications infrastructures of social movements.
Not only that. The current administration is a direct expression of the
digital platform oligarchs, the robber barons of the 21st century, those
who have filled their bank accounts by imposing a digital media
oligopoly and building a new military-industrial complex based on
information technology services. Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, and
Palantir are the companies lining their wallets with contracts from the
US Department of War. Everything outside the networks controlled by
these platforms is inherently to be regarded with suspicion and fear and
must be crushed.
We're not surprised. In the 1920s, fascism burned down printing presses
and newspaper offices; today, it's trying to shut down websites and
blogs. The attack comes from the United States, and the Meloni
government remains silent.
Experiences like that of Autistici/Inventati and many other collectives
demonstrate that it is possible to build IT systems that respond to our
needs, not those of the old or new bosses. These experiences, by their
very existence, counter the desire for domination of the likes of Thiel
and Bezos.
The Italian Anarchist Federation expresses its solidarity with the
Autistici/Inventati collective and invites everyone to support the
self-management experiences that guarantee, with their constant
commitment, the means of communication for those fighting for a world
radically different from that of the various Trumps and Rubios and their
servants.
Correspondence Commission of the Italian Anarchist Federation
https://federazioneanarchica.org/archivio/archivio_2026/20260830cdc.html
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