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U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

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Re: U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

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Post by jasonlotito »

ecshafer wrote: post #16

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> So I don't think this is as innocent as they seem.

Well, they are innocent until proven guilty.

> They are making and providing tools that enable communication specifically for Far Left groups, some of which are terrorist groups.

By all means, present something that shows they are knowingly supporting terrorist groups so we might judge for ourselves.

I mean, we have organizations that supported the January 6th terrorists that haven't had anything done to them, so I'm looking for something more serious than murder, storming the capital, riots, attacking the police force, and attempted assassination of a Vice President.

Re: U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

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Post by rvz »

> Our financial strategy relies exclusively on voluntary donations.

That is not a sustainable strategy in the long term. Sure after this news they will get lots of donations, but long term it is not something that is realistic.

Since they are now "sanctioned" by the US you cannot legally donate to them even if you wanted to...*[0]

[0] *Unless you now know why this collective needs crypto more than ever.

Re: U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

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Post by jasonlotito »

tptacek wrote: post #20
ecshafer wrote: post #16

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Without judging this or trying to axiomatically derive the logic, I think the claim here is that a/I knowingly and deliberately provides services to the PKK, which the US and the EU designate as a terrorist organization.

My understanding is that this is only coming from the US government. Do we have any reliable information to back this up? Because if it's just the US government, I can safely assume it's all lies.

Re: U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

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Post by 32ikU »

aeon_ai wrote: post #6

https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076 - Direct link to the sanctions declaration. The actual Treasury Announce here - https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616/ "The Autistici Inventati is an Italy-based far-left organization that provides a range of technological tools and services to violent left-wing extremist groups, including website hosting on foreign servers, encrypted email accounts, chat an…

How quaint. The MEK (Iranian People's Mudjahheddin) were designated as a terrorist organization but collected money in EU streets all the time. Now they are useful against Khamenei.

The US would also like to use the equivalent of the PKK in the large Kurdish part of Iran against Khamenei.

Nothing to say of using the PKK rebranding of SDF in Syria as well as receiving "global terrorist" Al Jolani in the White House.

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