Antifa-Linked Sites Go Dark After U.S. Designates Italy’s A/I Collective a Global Terrorist Entity
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Updated · Fox News · Aug 28
Antifa-Linked Sites Go Dark After U.S. Designates Italy’s A/I Collective a Global Terrorist Entity
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 28
Summary
Rose City Antifa and Jane’s Revenge websites began going offline within days of the State Department’s terrorist designation of Italy-based hosting provider Autistici/Inventati, with the NoBlogs platform showing intermittent outages Friday.
The sanctions block Americans and U.S. financial institutions from dealing with A/I and freeze any U.S.-linked assets, though the State Department did not say whether any U.S. agency directly disabled the infrastructure.
State says A/I supplied encrypted chat, email, hosting, video and anonymity tools to violent far-left groups in the U.S. and Europe, including Rose City Counter-Info, which allegedly doxxed ICE personnel and promoted attacks on federal agents.
Jane’s Revenge also used A/I services to post claims of responsibility for attacks on pregnancy centers, including the May 2022 firebombing of a Madison, Wisconsin, crisis pregnancy center, according to the department.
Rubio cast the move as part of a wider push against transnational far-left terrorism, rallying more than 60 countries at an international conference, while A/I denied the allegations and said it provides volunteer-run digital self-defense tools.
Could sanctioning an Italian tech collective for terrorism inadvertently outlaw global privacy tools and digital self-defense?
Does targeting a web host to stop extremist violence signal a dangerous new era of collateral damage for internet freedom?
As the 2026 sanctions deadline approaches, will complete financial isolation successfully dismantle a decentralized twenty-five-year-old hacker network?