The Autistici/Inventati case has strong parallels to the recent TikTok ban: Congress banned the social media network under foreign-policy pretexts because American youth were using it to share otherwise First Amendment–protected content. As with the TikTok ban, outlawing Autistici/Inventati is a way to force users to move to services that are more easily monitored and controlled by the U.S. government.
“The idea that an organization that is an alternative host—for email, websites, and other services—could be designated a terrorist organization simply for providing a service that a lot of people want…is scary,” says Jillian York, director of international freedom of expression at the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation. “This may sound a little conspiratorial, but the fact that this comes from an administration that is quite cozy with Silicon Valley giants, at a time when distrust of those companies is quite high from various parts of society, doesn’t seem to me a coincidence.”
This feels really strange. Like they’re trying to push privacy-concerned people to use this service for some reason
Otherwise why does the USA give the slightest shit about this service?
private communications is a direct attack on any police state.
presumably they were paid to by some business interest that felt threatened.
with these assholes it’s always either $, cruelty, or $ and cruelty
Do you catch my point though? How many americans were in this platform before this announcement? Maybe a handful?
It’s just suspicious is my point.
Wrong question. It’s not about how many Americans.
It’s about which Americans, the kind which would unfortunately be represented amongst A/I’s user base in a much greater than average distribution.
The very inconvenient and ideologically most dangerous to them ones. The ones Authority detests the most, whether Right or Left. The ones whose thoughts are so universally corrosive to the very concept of imposition and exploitation that they are something that both the Capitalist and the Communist both have murdered over to prevent the spread of. Anarchists.
No Gods. No Masters. Just us.
I’m confused, are you trying to say that the service that has been deemed a terrorist organization, and that many ISPs and various organizations are blocking merely because orange cheeto man said so, is somehow benefitting from this?
Wouldn’t this mean that Facebook and all other social media and by extension all of their employees are now terrorists as well? Since a terrorist organization could conceivably use Facebook Messenger to quickly plan a terrorist attack moments before committing it?
But, you see, the owner of Facebook is a billionaire with his dick aligned the same way as Trump’s: towards children.
Put the name in the title. Don’t just describe it. Say which one.
