Infrastructure as a weapon: Why the US action against Italy’s Autistici/Inventati puts global digital rights on notice

Twelve days — that’s how long it took a designation, signed in the US, to bring an end to the 25-year-long work of Autistici/Inventati, an Italian technology collective which supplied a non-commercial, privacy-first communications infrastructure alternative to Big Tech.On August 26, the US Departments of State and the Treasury denounced...