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Autistici.org is down - what can we do against it?

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  
...  
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/  
<blockquote markdown="1">>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2026-08-29T11:27:15Z <<<  
</blockquote>

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?

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Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’m not an expert on the global legality or anything, but it looks like DNS is handled by ICANN

Even though they’re a global group, ICANN is headquartered in the USA, which means they’re probably obligated (legally, not morally) to carry out the block

It’s still bullshit, but it is what it is

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- A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yeah. What worries me even more is that one cannot complain; the links on this page, to the actual complaint forms, are invalid.
  
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davad@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
What is autistici.org?

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- A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Good point.
  
  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.
  
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  - P1nkman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Jesus Christ, this is bad…
    
    Hey America, FUCK YOU!!!
    
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- sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  In a nutshell, A/I provides services like email, web hosting, and blogs. They are financed by donations, and their policy requires that users are against fascism, racism, militarism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. They don’t allow commercial use of their services either.
  
  The U.S. has labeled them as a “global terrorist organisation”, in the same category as Al-Qaeda. The reason? They support “far-left extremist antifa terrorists”. In normal person talk, the Trump admin is suppressing them for being against fascism and inequality.
  
  A/I has denied the claims by the U.S. government.
  
  I also use their email service, so this really sucks! It’s also a bit harrowing how they can censor something like this so quickly without any discussion in court.
  
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  - A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Everything is available at inventati.org!
    Since I solely use their aliases on other domains, which are not (yet) blocked, I guess I got lucky for now.
    But my will to protest has been awoken.
    
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veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Given ICANN is a bunch of Trump cocksuckers, the only alternative is to switch to, well, an alternative to DNS. Or at least an alternative central authority.

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sbeak@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Hang on a minute, this looks familiar…

No problems here though, more awareness about this is always better! Still kind of insane the U.S. gov can just designate an online service as a “global terrorist organisation” and block them with DNS.

cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076

from A/I: “Antifascism and anticapitalism are not terrorism. Protesting is not terrorism. And everyone has the right to speak out and to struggle for humanity.”

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