A/I stands for Autistici/Inventati.
A/I (Autistici/Inventati, pronounced [au’tistiʧi]-[iŋ’vɛntati], or [iŋvɛn’tati]) was born in 2001 from an encounter of individuals and collectives of the autonomous anticapitalist movement interested in technology and active in the digital rights struggle. We believe that this world is far from being the best world possible. We react by providing a platform and tools for digital self-defense addressing the need of free communication for activists and other individuals.
The day we discovered we had been designated a global terrorist organization, we promised that we would try to resist as long as this was possible, that we would not back down as long as we could see options to stand our ground.
We cannot engage in a fight or expose ourselves to manipulations that threaten the lives of these people and their loved ones, leaving them at the mercy of autocrats, fascists and agencies that take extra-legal courses of action.
What happened? First their main domain, autistici.org, was blocked globally by the US entity that provides the ".org" TLD. More recently their bank shut down their funds because of caving in to pressure that ultimately comes from the same source.
Full context/statement about the domain shutdown:
https://www.inventati.org/campaign/press
I also made some posts about this earlier. You can probably guess that I've been relying on their services, for a long time. And not even for particularly political reasons - they give email accounts to people who care for privacy and anonymity. Or used to.
They announce this new site:
https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/announcing-https/keepitfree.ai/
Personally I'm just shocked how US policy reaches and impacts my normal peaceful European life.
Fuck the US government. Being AntiFa is not terrorism. Being against AntiFa means you're Fa.
PS: Sorry for posting this to several world news communities. I feel this topic should shake the Fediverse.
Remember:
This can happen to any ".org" domain, and possibly many other TLDs that are controled by entities that are prone to give into US bullying. Or your bank will cave to US pressure.
Um, ok.
It's been AntiFa long before they co-opted and perverted the term.
And yeah, of course the MAGA brainworm posse is full-on fascist, duh.
It's also pronounced Anti-Fa, with a stress on the first syllable, and not "anteefa".
That's why it's better to just say anti-fascist. Anti-fascist is nowadays the clearest term for it. "Antifa" is constantly being used as a word for "your enemy", so using the same word but with another meaning can become confusing to people who don't know the antifa movement that well (which, let's be honest, it's most people).
they changed the narrative on the term.
antifa is a dog whistle now. call it something else.
Why tf are you letting US fascists take away a term that's been used for a century by anti-fascists across the world? It doesn't even have the Trumpian connotation outside of the US.
why tf are you fighting so hard against something that's so trivial? don't antifascists have more important battles to focus on than using the name "antifa"?
Look, I get it. it's the principle that you feel like they're winning if you abandon "antifa". don't you think that maybe you feel that way because that's what they want you to feel?
instead of focusing on how they want you to be perceived, force them to recognize who you are. you are anti fascist and anyone who argues against that is clearly pro fascist.
the only way to flip the narrative they want is to turn their script upside down.
Wtf are you on about? You are conceding shit that nobody asked you you to concede. I'm not "fighting hard". I replied to a comment on a lemmy post. Nobody thinks that antifa means anything other than anti-fascist except right-wingers in one country I don't live in. Why should I let them control my language?