The US has declared Autistici/Inventati, an Italian anarchist hacker (in the classic sense of the term) collective, a terrorist organization. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616/
But what you really ought to read is this article about A/I's history, and what this means https://web.archive.org/web/20260828071449/https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10083/2
I'm concerned that the US government is starting to identify decentralized media infrastructure as a threat to its survival. Repost information about this broadly, and if you have media contacts, inform them of counter-narratives; there could come a time where the fediverse, or any decentralized network infrastructure, is a target as well if we don't sound the alarms now.
EDIT: I linked to the wrong page! The second link is now fixed :)
EDIT 2: A/I's domains have been revoked! So added an archive.org link
Yeah, as the title goes, things are getting bad out there. The Mastodon post says more about it than I can atm.
They control so much of the ecosystem of our lives, though. How much disconnection is possible before it becomes harmful? Will it be possible at all in the near future? I feel like I’ve watched this emerge slowly in the last 2 decades as people willingly adopt these tech dependencies, myself included, though more cautiously, despite all the warnings. We should not be empowering companies that are willing to hurt us and we’ve gone and done exactly that over and over again. They clearly use leverage to force concessions and we’re giving them more with every dependency. No wonder they trend toward monopolizy.
They control so much of the ecosystem of our lives, though. How much disconnection is possible before it becomes harmful? Will it be possible at all in the near future? I feel like I’ve watched this emerge slowly in the last 2 decades as people willingly adopt these tech dependencies, myself included, though more cautiously, despite all the warnings. We should not be empowering companies that are willing to hurt us and we’ve gone and done exactly that over and over again. They clearly use leverage to force concessions and we’re giving them more with every dependency. No wonder they trend toward monopolizy.