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.
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Assuming OP is within the US or EU then there is no real risk to using Chinese services compared to a real risk when using EU/US services. China can’t arrest you in California or Italy. Also Chinese services are unlikely to cooperate with the US/EU’s increasingly fascist laws. There are other risks like censorship (or the fact that most Chinese services don’t actually serve non-Chinese customers in the first place) but that’s not what OP is concerned about in this post.
Yeah. I mean it was just a shitpost because the EU IS becoming more and more fascist. E.g. Italy banned VPNs.
But I have really no clue if using Chinese digital services is even an option. They often seem to need some kind of national id.
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The overseas service stations are such a bad faith point in this situation. That would only be able to be used against people who are Chinese citizens, and even according to the Wikipedia page it’s not likely, which OP almost certainly is not.