The United States government has designated the Italian non-profit organisation Autistici/Inventati as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" for providing digital infrastructure. EDRi stands in full solidarity with A/I.
Press Release · Keep the Internet free
On August 26, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, through OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control – the authority responsible for managing and enforcing economic and financial sanctions) sanctioned Autistici/Inventati (A/I), an Italian collective that has been providing digital infrastructure – email, hosting, mailing lists, chat, videoconferencing, streaming, and services related to privacy and anonymity – to movements and activists since 2001. Washington designated it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), alleging that it has provided financial, material or technological support to terrorism and to organizations already subjected to sanctions. A/I rejects the allegations and declares that its activities consist in providing tools for digital self-defence and infrastructure for the freedom of communication.
Press Release · Keep the Internet free
On August 26, 2026, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, through OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control – the authority responsible for managing and enforcing economic and financial sanctions) sanctioned Autistici/Inventati (A/I), an Italian collective that has been providing digital infrastructure – email, hosting, mailing lists, chat, videoconferencing and other privacy-friendly online services – to movements and activists since 2001. Washington designated it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), alleging that it has provided financial, material or technological support to terrorism and to organizations already subjected to sanctions. A/I rejects the allegations and declares that its activities consist in providing tools for digital self-defence and infrastructure for the freedom of communication.
Designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist - United States Department of State
Today, the Department of State, in partnership with the Department of the Treasury, is announcing the designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Autistici/Inventati (A/I Collective) is an Italy-based extremist group that builds and operates the digital infrastructure for violent Antifa cells and other far-left militants across the world. A/I’s cadre of radical […]
Autistici/Inventati
Autistici/Inventati (A/I) was an Italian hacktivist group that provided Internet communication services for left-wing activists.[1] It was founded in 2001 by members of the anti-globalisation movement and supported Indymedia Italy in reporting on the 27th G8 summit in Genoa that year.[1][2] The collective's email, messaging, videoconferencing and web hosting services were available to users who opposed fascism, militarism, racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia.[3] A/I also operated the online publishing platform NoBlogs.[4]
Protest Against the U.S. Government’s Crackdown on Autistici/Inventati
On Wednesday, August 26, the U.S. government (Department of the Treasury, Department of State) imposed sanctions on “Autistici/Inventati” (hereinafter abbreviated as A/I), a small Internet service provider for a volunteer-run movement in Italy, on suspicion of providing services to terrorist organizations. According to the State Department, it is “an Italy-based extremist group that builds and operates the digital infrastructure for violent Antifa cells and other far-left militants across the world.” The sanctions include the freezing of the organization’s assets under U.S. jurisdiction; prohibiting all U.S. citizens from engaging in transactions with the organization; prohibiting financial institutions and others from conducting transactions with the organization; and prohibiting donations, as well as the provision of funds, goods, or services to the organization.
United States sanctions Autistici/Inventati for supporting far-left terrorism
The US designated Italy-based tech collective Autistici/Inventati as a global terrorist entity, freezing assets and banning transactions over
Open Letter: Communications Infrastructure Is Not Terrorism
Defend Autistici/Inventati and the right to build resistant communication *Letter for individuals to send to their reps, senators, and the like is at the end of this article* On August 26, 2026, the United States designated the Italian volunteer technology collective Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist
Gli Usa mettono Autistici/Inventati nella lista dei terroristi globali: “Sostiene cellule Antifa”
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Nineteen Days Before the Deadline, Autistici/Inventati Is Shutting Down
The Italian communications collective survived raids, surveillance and server seizures for 25 years. Eleven days after the United States designated it a global terrorist organization, A/I says the risk to its users has become too great to…
La disattivazione di autistici.org minaccia la natura globale e libera di Internet | Internet Society Italia
L’Internet Society Italia esprime forte preoccupazione per la disattivazione del dominio autistici.org da parte del Public Interest Registry (PIR), conseguente alla designazione di Autistici/Inventati da parte del governo statunitense come Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT).
The case of the ‘Autistici/Inventati’ and the US sanctions targeting the infrastructure, not those responsible
On 26 August, the United States added the Italian collective Autistici/Inventati to the OFAC list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists. The measure,...
Il caso degli Autistici/Inventati e la sanzione Usa che colpisce l’infrastruttura, non i responsabili
Il 26 agosto gli Stati Uniti hanno inserito il collettivo italiano Autistici/Inventati nella lista OFAC degli Specially Designated Global Terrorists. La...
Autistici/Inventati: "We need 1,000 more infrastructures of dissent to be born" - Freedom News
Interview with the Italian digital collective, de-banked and shut down after US “terrorist” designation ~ Gabriel Fonten ~ On the 26 Au…
Banca Etica e le sanzioni ad Autistici/Inventati: no all'uso delle norme anti-terrorismo contro il dissenso. Urgenti risposte istituzionali. - Banca Etica
Venerdì 28 agosto 2026 è stata diffusa la notizia della decisione dell’amministrazione statunitense di inserire il collettivo italiano Autistici/Inventati nelle cosiddette liste OFAC, nell’ambito di azioni mirate a “contrastare la crescente minaccia rappresentata dai gruppi terroristici violenti di estrema sinistra”. Autistici/Inventati è un collettivo toscano che sviluppa servizi informatici indipendenti e che fornisce indirizzi email, […]
Nineteen Days Before the Deadline, Autistici/Inventati Is Shutting Down
Follow all the original reporting at sabot.media and our dedicated campaign page and investigations page. The Italian communications collective survived raids, surveillance and server seizures for 25 years. Eleven days after the United States designated it a global terrorist organization, A/I says the risk to its users has
Autistici/Inventati
A/I and their US designation as a “terrorist” organization on August 26, 2026. If you just want to look at one link, try this one: sabot.media/investigations/autistici-inve… (Side note that I don’t support Spotify, but I do want the links classified and embedded as audio cards)
Why Internet Infrastructure Decisions Rarely Stay Localized - Internet Society
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L’appello delle associazioni olandesi per Autistici/Inventati e per la Corte Penale Internazionale