A few days ago, the U.S. government sanctioned A/I for supporting “extreme far-left antifa terrorists”. If you didn’t know, A/I is an antifascist and anticapitalist group based in Italy, and they host a lot of services (like email, website hosting, etc.) run through donations. Their policy states that they are against racism, sexism, militarism, homophobia, and transphobia, and you have to agree to those principles to use their services. Their website and mailing server has been taken down, and unfortunately, that also means my email no longer works. It’s kind of insane how quickly the American government can take down internet services they don’t like. A/I has denied all of the allegations by the Trump admin, and rightfully so, they’re just a digital services provider who respect your privacy and are against fascism and bigotry.
relevant link if you want to read more about this: https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076
I still need to use email, so what’s a good alternative email provider that doesn’t profit off of my data? I have used Disroot in the past and had good experiences with their services, so they are currently my fallback. I have ruled out Proton and Tuta, as neither support IMAP properly.
Ok so at first we have to look at why they are getting sanctioned and why not let’s says someone like Mullvad is getting sanctioned. Here is the official reasoning:
https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/08/designation-of-autistici-inventati-as-a-specially-designated-global-terrorist/
The difference here seems to be that they explicitly know what their “customers” are doing (e.g. terrorism/energy infrastructure sabotage) and allow/endorse that.
If you are on a platform that endorses terrorists organizations - well you can apply the same reasoning as with a Nazi bar.
You can find EU alternatives for mail here: https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers
If you really had an account on that sanctioned platform I would recommend to wipe everything there and run a GDPR request for data deletion otherwise your data might show up during their next police raid.
They are being sanctioned because the fascists running the US are using their power to disenfranchise antifascists. They offer an opinionated service, quote:“…recognizes and promotes anticapitalism, antiracism, antifascism, antisexism, antimililtarism, and the refusal of authoritarianism and hierarchies.”. They are being sanctioned because providing infrastructure to ideologies outside of those aligned with Trump and his cronies is being construed as “terrorist activitiy”.
Go lick some more fascist boots and fuck off.
Yeah totally expect a simple comment from someone like you after I looked at the instance.
These guys knowingly provide hosting infrastructure for people
Polictical ideology is irrelevant when you knowingly provide a platform for terrorists you will end up in legal trouble.
That entire organisation is also certainly already bugged by police or intelligence services and scheduled for getting taken down soon.
Google provides search results for everything under the sun, legal or not. AWS is used by real terrorists. Microsoft Azure is used in genocides. Palantir is used to prop up the surveillance state. Meta advertises child porn. X is providing communication services for far right groups. I do not see them being designated a terrorist group - providing infrastructure for communication is not the same as being a terrorist.
This designarion is not one of “you are harming people”. It is based on “You think the wrong way and therefore you are our enemy”. If you can’t differentiate that, you are either brainwashed or a fascist yourself. Be ashamed, if you are even able to.
this condescending cringy language is why they hate us
They hate us because they are fascists and hate is their core concept. And we’ve seen how much of a fuck they give when we try to converse with them on equal ground over the last decades. Never forget what Sartre said:
Discourse with a fascist is useless in the vast majority of cases. What isn’t useless is to show the inhumanity, selectivity and selfishness of their language when shown in a public forum. Note how they started acting after Walz started naming these people “weird”. They don’t cope well with being shown to be what they really are. Chastising them for being inhuman drekheads and naming things as they are is not “cringy”, it is an imperative.
Ok so everyone is a facist in your opinion… and therefore discussion with everyone is useless.
Idk but that sounds like you have schizophrenia to me.
I am talking about that discourse with fascist is, indeed, useless - your reply just underscored Sartres words perfecty. Thanks for that.
Incorrect. Certain entries can be delisted. Google is e.g. using https://lumendatabase.org/ for that.
I have no idea what this discussion has to do with e. g. Planatir as they don’t provide hosted services to users.
To stay on the topic: non of these services explicitly allow or endorse terroristic content on their platform.
Such nice words. If everyone is a facist nobody is.
By default they list everything. You can contact them and remove stuff, but by default all the smut, trash and bullshit of the web gets indexed. A/I would remove illegal content too, but this wasn’t even tried. Don’t deflect.
Palantir provides infrastructure, same as the others. They fit well, especially when viewed from the perspective of who you are allowed to provide services to on basis of ideology.
A/I also do not explicitly allow or endorse terroristic content. They provide infrastructure for communication to people, same as any other hoster or mail provider. Only difference is their antifascistic stance and that they have been repeatedly the target of repressive actions.
And no, only the people who attack antifascist infrastructure based on the words of a nazi government - You know, the currrent US administration - are fascists or fascist bootlickers. Need examples?
I could go on far longer, but i do not want to waste more time at you. If you are just a brainwashed, lost soul, stop watching the crap Youtube and Meta are throwing in your face, you are too easily influenced to discern the difference between neonazi propaganda and reality. If you are a true believer in that shit, my condolences go to the part of your family that doesn’t want to have contact with you anymore (probably your kids and ex-wife), and the rest of what i would put here is intentionally self-censored, but you will probably get the gist.
Im not going to read that schizophrenic manifesto. Learn how to communicate properly with people and don’t tell me that a certain US president lives in your walls and there are Nazis on the moon.
Have a nice day.
Lol, an illiterate fascist! You are truly part of the greatest race of all.
For everyone else, i will provide Sartre again:
And now we have arrived at the last sentence with this guy:
there is a legal procedure that should happen then, not an immediate takedown! trump’s puppets should contact the Italian authorities, get court approval to request data, if they don’t comply then get the court to seize hardware, or whatever else they do before that. did any of that happen here?
No, it didn’t, because A/I hasn’t broken any laws, just as google doesn’t break any law when indexing neonazi propaganda that is illegal in germany. A/I has been under legal attack more than once, and it is very obvious that it didn’t work, because nothing they do is illegal.
Designating someone as a terrorist in a country where the law and justice mean something should need a previous sentencing for a crime that gives a legal basis for such a designation (aka planning or executing attacks, murders, blackmail, you know, the stuff the current US administration is very guilty of). This designation is the equivalent to sentencing someone to life in prison without any legal defense; the US executive took the place of Jury, Judge and Executioner all at once.
A/I has denied these claims that the U.S. government has made, they are not terrorists, they merely share communication services for people who are against fascism, racism, militarism, and bigotry of all kinds. The majority of their users are regular people, perhaps activists, and the few that advocate for violence doesn’t make A/I terrorists. I can guarantee you there are more extremists on Gmail than on A/I, more illegal content is distributed through services like Google Drive and MEGA than A/I does, more hate is spread by Medium and Substack compared to A/I’s blog services.
The Trump admin is using the terrorist designation to restrict an organisation that does not agree with their ideology. Antifascism and protest is not terrorism.
If you believe the lies in a Trump press release, then you are the most gullible bootlicking fool on the planet.
Or a fascist like his rotting orange half-corpse fuhrer and his braindead lackeys.
Congratulations, you drank the propaganda. They do not explicitly know what their customers are doing, because they believe in privacy and everything is encrypted. What they explicitly know is that their “customers” are not capitalists, racists, fascists, sexists, militarists, or authoritarians because they ask during registration. It is not the duty nor the right of a service provider to ensure how its users use their platform, contrary to what you have been told for decades to justify surveillance. It’s not a hard concept: either criminals can get privacy too, or no one can. Sure preventing terrorist attacks is something no one can oppose, but just like that you also silence every journalist, activist and whistleblower that just wants a secure service without Uncle Sam’s hands in it