Open Letter: Communications Infrastructure Is Not Terrorism

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: "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…

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…

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,...

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

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.

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.

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]

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

Gli Usa mettono Autistici/Inventati nella lista dei terroristi globali: “Sostiene cellule Antifa”

Washington accusa lo storico collettivo italiano di fornire infrastrutture digitali e comunicazioni cifrate a gruppi violenti dell’estrema sinistra. A/I respin…

May First Movement Technology

On Wednesday, August 26th, the US government’s executive branch sanctioned Autistici/Inventati, a small, Italian, volunteer-run activist Internet provider, for allegedly giving services to terrorist organizations (see the State Department press release and Treasury Department press release).

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 case sets a new counterterrorism precedent, Irdi says - Decode39

The U.S. decision targeting Autistici/Inventati should not be read simply as another sanction in Washington’s crackdown on violent extremism. According to Beniamino Irdi, senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund and CEO of Highground, the more significant point lies elsewhere: for the first time, the logic of material support is being applied openly and forcefully to technological infrastructure. The target is no longer only those who carry out an act, but also those who provide the infrastructure that makes it possible. It is a choice that sets a delicate precedent for European allies and for the balance between security, intelligence and legal safeguards.

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.

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).