Since the small Italian internet provider Autistici/Inventati was placed on an American sanctions list, it has been struggling to keep its services running. According to civil rights organizations, A/I is the canary in the coal mine.
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It’s not a partisan problem. Maybe PayPal does favor certain things, idk. Leftist groups, right wing groups, non-partisan groups, guns, drugs, porn are all targeted by various parts of financial infrastructure.
Regardless if you disagree with people being debanked, there’s probably countless people you agree with being censored. The point is that it should require a court order.
Making it partisan is exactly what banks would want us to do.
https://xprivate.lol/GrapheneOS/status/1684643898319052800#m
https://www.voanews.com/a/paypal-terminates-hong-kong-account-of-pro-democracy-group/6789564.html
https://xprivate.lol/michaeljknowles/status/1947433739790733691
https://blog.catbox.moe/post/785233399498555392/important-catbox-needs-your-help
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Is another one that happened very recently
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For context about PayPal, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel were both among the founders.
I use the mail from them. How-To fix my mail? What’s the new site?
https://www.autistici.org does not work anymore. How-To still get mails?
Try one of these : Contact
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Here is what they said in their blog:
A STATEMENT BY A/I COLLECTIVE ABOUT US SANCTIONS
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
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Much agree. The court order is not present here.
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I’m not receiving my emails from Autistici/Inventati. I don’t get any error messages or anything, but I just don’t get any emails. How exactly do I fix this in Thunderbird?
There is no fix. They are shut down.
The new site is https://www.inventati.org/. Unfortunately they are shutting down. They say they will soon send instructions to backup your mailbox. (A/I Shuts Down Stay Human · Keep the Internet free)
what about disroot.org? They will soon follow? Is there any statement from them?
They really decided to shut down without telling people to switch to something else beforehand? After all these years?
What the..
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I don’t think the US govt have declared them ‘terrorists’, so they should be ok for now.
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They provide their service to groups which could be classified as terrorists by trump in the future (e.g. antifa related) so I wouldn’t depend on it with important stuff.
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Dutch police seized the server in Amsterdam after a request from the US.
Article is in Dutch.
Nice example of E2EE importance. Jurisdiction does not matter.
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