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U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

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Post by moron129 »

Mythli wrote: post #82
mrtesthah wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that more, or less, than the 1.2 million people Musk has killed so far with the illegal dismantlement of USAID? Musk aggressively advocates for the forcible ethnic cleansing of Europe. I see people posting links to x.com which he uses to promote those views as well as platform other hate groups calling for violence and genocide against immigrants, trans people, etc. Do acts gain moral validity under color of law a…

well USAID where I live finances regime changes and I guess these are very net negative in terms of lives killed. You see it everywhere.

Don't worry, the regime change part of USAID has been moved directly to Rubio in the State Department. Only the aid part has been removed.

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

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Post by john_strinlai »

nonethewiser wrote: post #108
john_strinlai wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> So no one knows about these conversations but you know there are orders of magnitude more? Walk me through that. sure. whatsapp is used by literal billions of people. add in a few more billion people through facebook, instagram, gmail, outlook, amazon. would you like me to walk through the statistics calculations? or can you extrapolate from the billions of users? now make a guess how many people a/i has facilitate…

>would you like me to walk through the statistics calculations? yes

okay, great. we can do this together.

lets start with this: how many terrorists do you think a/i has helped?

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Post by CMay »

hamburga wrote: post #62

As far as I can tell, there were no credible criminal charges against this group, except that they are effective organizers on the opposite side of political spectrum. In the White House’s deranged logic, this qualifies them to be officially designated as domestic terrorists [1]. Can we all agree that this is an assault on the First Amendment? [1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/desi...

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

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Post by dam_jackalopes »

ecshafer wrote: post #81
forestrywat wrote: post #37

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Which terrorist groups, specifically? And what support are they offering specifically? You say provide tools for communication. Presumably that's every communication platform worldwide - almost undoubtably some sort of terrorist has used each of them.

They provide services to PKK which is a terrorist group, specifically.

The PKK is in the process of disarming. If this decision is based on the PKK specifically, the timing seems strange.

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

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Post by dpc050505 »

iamnothere wrote: post #45

Everyone’s missing the big picture here which is that this targeting of infrastructure providers as “terrorists” is unprecedented and concerning: https://decode39.com/16319/autistici-inventati-case-sets-a-n... If a radical group sets up shop on I2P, are I2P users and devs now terrorists? This is a problem. What about Monero users/devs? Veilid? Tox? Signal?

Monero is delisted from exchanges in Canada because the anonymity makes it impossible to comply with anti-money laundering regulations. It makes it a lot harder to acquire the coins or to turn them into liquidity. The government is also going hard against encryption with law c-22, which will make Signal stop providing service in the country.

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

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Post by mossTechnician »

nonethewiser wrote: post #63
iamnothere wrote: post #45

Everyone’s missing the big picture here which is that this targeting of infrastructure providers as “terrorists” is unprecedented and concerning: https://decode39.com/16319/autistici-inventati-case-sets-a-n... If a radical group sets up shop on I2P, are I2P users and devs now terrorists? This is a problem. What about Monero users/devs? Veilid? Tox? Signal?

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> If they choose to support the PKK

Did they? There's a lot of implication with that "if", and I saw someone else point out (albeit rudely) that anything that may have supported them was taken down.

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Post by Ar-Curunir »

nonethewiser wrote: post #63
iamnothere wrote: post #45

Everyone’s missing the big picture here which is that this targeting of infrastructure providers as “terrorists” is unprecedented and concerning: https://decode39.com/16319/autistici-inventati-case-sets-a-n... If a radical group sets up shop on I2P, are I2P users and devs now terrorists? This is a problem. What about Monero users/devs? Veilid? Tox? Signal?

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Morality != legality. these anarchists have a much better moral grounding than most US tech companies which gladly support US military destruction.

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

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Post by Ar-Curunir »

nonethewiser wrote: post #39
napolux wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Autistici/Inventati is an Italian collective, active since around 2001, that runs free digital services for activists, grassroots groups and anyone who wants to communicate without being profiled. It provides email accounts, mailing lists, blogs, websites, chat and VPN access.

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This entire thread you’ve been talking about the PKK with very little evidence in support.
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