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submitted 8 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) by A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

So yeah, antifascism is now terrorism according to the US gov.
Their website and mailing server has been taken down in Europe, too now.
Are they still willing to kiss his ass, or does the USA have the power to do that globally?

Only yesterday most DNS services allowed it (OpenNIC, NextDNS, and the big ones).
Now they all return this:

whois autistici.org  (edited)  
Registrar URL: http://www.gandi.net/  
Registrar: Gandi SAS  
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: abuse@support.gandi.net  
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +33.170377661  
Domain Status: serverHold https://icann.org/epp#serverHold  
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited  
Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited  
Domain Status: serverUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverUpdateProhibited  
URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://icann.org/wicf/  

Check out these links, it's bad:

serverHold https://icann.org/epp#serverHold
clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
serverUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverUpdateProhibited

One can log a complaint here but all the form links resolve to my.site.com. Which is invalid.

Question

Where (in Europe or globally) can I log a complaint resp. protest?


What is autistici.org

It's the Italian volunteer technology collective Autistici/Inventati. Has been around for decades.

There's been some reports on the fediverse during the past days, and personally I've been using them for years. Among other things they provide free email accounts for people who ask.
https://piefed.zip/c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com/p/1770717/trump-admininistration-has-designated-the-italian-pro-privacy-and-anticapitalist-collectiv
https://piefed.zip/c/technology@piefed.social/p/1767731/united-states-sanctions-autistici-inventati-for-supporting-far-left-terrorism
https://piefed.zip/c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se/p/1773823/autistici-inventati-s-main-org-domain-goes-dark-after-us-terrorism-designation

And of course their own blog post about it:
https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076


edit1:
Since their registrar is Gandi, I think it makes sense to log a complaint with them even if they aren't ultimately responsible:
abuse@support.gandi.net
https://helpdesk.gandi.net/hc/en-us/requests/new

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[-] eleijeep@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago
[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 3 points 2 hours ago

OpenNIC also blocks autistici.org.

Yeah, it's bad.

I was told these services get lists from ICANN without checking them. Although the wikipedia article suggests OpenNIC has its own, different root?

I do hope manual intervention is possble, otherwise Trump has the whole WWW by the balls.

[-] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 hours ago

OpenNIC also blocks autistici.org.

Yeah, it’s bad.

Hmmm then they are not as independent as one would think of them. Do we know who is funding opennic?

[-] eleijeep@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah because they refer to the same ICANN root servers for the ICANN root domains. The point of an alternative DNS root is that they can provide their own specific top-level domains, so sites that are targeted by this kind of censorship can register a domain in an OpenNIC managed TLD and then they are only subject to moderation by OpenNIC instead of ICANN.

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