Dear Pirates,
Autistici/Inventati is an institution in the Italian hacking scene. This collective has been a pillar of the Italian hacking scene for 25 years, providing free services for activists, such as mailing lists, VPNs, email servers, as well as education and solidarity.
Since yesterday it has been a " Specially Designated Global Terrorist" by the United States of America:
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 hackers and tech developers provide a full spectrum of services – including encrypted chats and email, web hosting, secure video conferencing and streaming, anonymity shields, and a suite of other technological tools – to Marxist, anarchist, and other left-wing extremist groups in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. These tools are specifically designed to support the operations of far-left terrorist networks, built to enable them to organize, recruit, communicate, disseminate propaganda, share target information and tactics, and carry out violent attacks – all while remaining anonymous, untraceable, and beyond the reach of the law.
At a personal level, I have been very skeptical about the use of sanctions against individuals and organizations that are established by the executive branch without judicial oversee, and this is exactly the case that proves my worries.
Regarding this case, is there anything that we can do at the institutional level?