US Government designates host of noblogs.org a “global terrorist”

美国政府将 noblogs.org 的托管方列为“全球恐怖分子”

On August 26, 2026, the United States government classified the Italian collective Autistici/Inventati as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist,” citing the collective’s “far-left” politics to justify the designation. They announced similar designations of the British group Palestine Action and the transnational Palestinian movement Masar Badil in the same statement. 2026年8月26日，美国政府将意大利集体 Autistici/Inventati 列为“特别指定全球恐怖分子”，并以该集体的“极左”政治立场作为其定性的理由。在同一份声明中，他们还宣布对英国组织“巴勒斯坦行动”（Palestine Action）和跨国巴勒斯坦运动“Masar Badil”采取了类似的定性。

Founded in 2001, Autistici/Inventati is a volunteer-run provider of privacy-oriented email, websites, mailing lists, blogs, and communications tools for users who prefer not to rely on corporate platforms. According to the US State Department, Autistici/Inventati hosts “roughly 16,000 mailboxes, 1,500 websites, 5,500 mailing lists, and 10,000 ‘blogs’ on its custom-built platform.” Autistici/Inventati 成立于 2001 年，是一个由志愿者运营的服务提供商，为那些不愿依赖企业平台的用户提供注重隐私的电子邮件、网站、邮件列表、博客和通信工具。据美国国务院称，Autistici/Inventati 在其定制平台上托管了“大约 16,000 个邮箱、1,500 个网站、5,500 个邮件列表和 10,000 个‘博客’”。

Autistici/Inventati explain their values and goals in their manifesto: We believe that communication must be free—and for free—and, therefore, universally accessible. We try to accomplish all this by offering internet services (web sites, e-mail, mailing lists, chats, blogs, newsletters, and more) using our best skills and knowledge to defend both individuals or groups sharing our same aims or ideals. […] We believe that media and communication should not be the exclusive domain of information professionals. We believe in the value of self-management: this is why we have no sponsors or funding of any kind, apart from voluntary donations from those who believe that our project is important and must survive. None of us earns a cent from this project (in fact, quite the opposite). Autistici/Inventati 在其宣言中阐述了他们的价值观和目标：我们相信通信必须是自由的——而且是免费的——因此应该是普遍可及的。我们试图通过提供互联网服务（网站、电子邮件、邮件列表、聊天、博客、新闻通讯等）来实现这一切，利用我们最好的技能和知识来捍卫与我们有相同目标或理想的个人或团体。[……] 我们认为媒体和通信不应成为信息专业人士的专属领域。我们相信自我管理的价值：这就是为什么我们没有任何赞助商或任何形式的资金，除了来自那些认为我们的项目很重要且必须生存下去的人们的自愿捐款。我们中没有人从这个项目中赚取一分钱（事实上，恰恰相反）。

Many book fairs, radio programs, and other cultural projects rely on the Autistici/Inventati platform noblogs.org for website hosting. According to one anti-fascist research group, “Some of the most well-known NoBlogs sites belong to researchers who solely report on far-right hate and radicalization, never doing anything aside from showing you what exists.” Such researchers helped to identify the fascists who participated in the “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, during which one Neo-Nazi murdered Heather Heyer in an actual act of terrorism. 许多书展、广播节目和其他文化项目都依赖 Autistici/Inventati 的平台 noblogs.org 进行网站托管。据一个反法西斯研究小组称，“一些最著名的 NoBlogs 网站属于那些专门报道极右翼仇恨和激进化现象的研究人员，他们除了展示现实存在的事物外，从不做其他任何事情。”这些研究人员曾帮助识别了 2017 年参加“团结右翼”（Unite the Right）集会的法西斯分子，在那次集会中，一名新纳粹分子在一次实际的恐怖主义行为中谋杀了希瑟·海耶（Heather Heyer）。

The US State Department is rationalizing this designation by alleging that Autistici/Inventati “provides encrypted tools and services to numerous violent far-left extremist groups,” including Portland-based Rose City Antifa. Their claim about Rose City Antifa seems to be false, however, conflating Rose City Antifa with another project called Rose City Counterinfo. On the basis of this error, the State Department rushed to proclaim an alleged “Portland Antifa connection to Hamas” and “Iran’s IRGC” [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps], with the sole justification being the allegation that an unnamed “extremist media group”—which they do not allege had any relationship to Rose City Antifa—had republished statements from Hamas and the IRGC on a website hosted by noblogs.org. This is representative of the dishonesty and erroneousness of the State Department press release as a whole. 美国国务院为这一定性辩解称，Autistici/Inventati “为众多暴力极左极端组织提供了加密工具和服务”，其中包括总部位于波特兰的“玫瑰城反法西斯主义者”（Rose City Antifa）。然而，他们关于 Rose City Antifa 的说法似乎是错误的，将该组织与另一个名为“玫瑰城反信息”（Rose City Counterinfo）的项目混为一谈。基于这一错误，国务院急于宣称所谓的“波特兰反法西斯组织与哈马斯及伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）有关联”，其唯一的理由是一个未具名的“极端媒体组织”——他们并未声称该组织与 Rose City Antifa 有任何关系——在 noblogs.org 托管的网站上转载了哈马斯和伊斯兰革命卫队的声明。这代表了美国国务院新闻稿整体上的不诚实和错误性。

When a military force carries out an attack on a village, the first thing they do is attempt to cut the communication lines that connect it to the outside world. We have to understand the attack on Autistici/Inventati the same way. Now that tech corporations from Meta to the platform formerly known as Twitter have showed that they are willing to ban whoever the US government instructs them to, the US government is going after groups that provide web services on a non-commercial basis. Because there is no “domestic terrorist organization” designation in the United States, the Trump administration began its criminalization of anti-fascists by designating European anti-fascist groups as “terrorists.” They are targeting an Italian tech project for the same reason: they aim to put the pieces in place to criminalize domestic protesters by associating them with designated “Global Terrorist” groups. 当一支军队对一个村庄发动袭击时，他们做的第一件事就是试图切断其与外界联系的通信线路。我们必须以同样的方式理解对 Autistici/Inventati 的攻击。既然从 Meta 到前身为 Twitter 的平台等科技公司已经表明，他们愿意封禁美国政府指示他们封禁的任何人，那么美国政府现在正将目标对准那些以非商业方式提供网络服务的团体。由于美国没有“国内恐怖组织”的定性，特朗普政府通过将欧洲反法西斯团体定性为“恐怖分子”，开始了对反法西斯主义者的刑事定罪。他们针对一个意大利科技项目的原因也是如此：他们的目标是通过将国内抗议者与被指定的“全球恐怖分子”团体联系起来，为将国内抗议者定罪铺平道路。

According to the United States Department of the Treasury, starting on September 25, 2026, any transactions with Autistici/Inventati will be “prohibited by the Global Terrorism Sanctions Regulations.” The press release from the Treasury stipulates: Violations of US sanctions may result in the imposition of civil or criminal penalties on US and foreign persons. 据美国财政部称，从 2026 年 9 月 25 日起，与 Autistici/Inventati 的任何交易都将“被《全球恐怖主义制裁条例》禁止”。财政部的新闻稿规定：违反美国制裁可能会导致对美国和外国个人处以民事或刑事处罚。

Autistici/Inventati have released a short statement about the designation: We deny all allegations included in the statements, while we strongly affirm our dedication to providing a platform of tools for digital self-defense, addressing the need of free communication for activists and other individuals, groups and associations. We will not back down, we will keep doing what we have been doing all these years and we will do whatever is in our possibility to counter the false allegations made by a politically desperate administration with the sole intention of swaying people and media attention away from their own violence and warmongering. Anti-fascism and anti-capitalism are not terrorism. Protesting is not terrorism. And everyone has the right to speak out and to struggle for humanity. Autistici/Inventati 就此定性发表了一份简短声明：我们否认声明中包含的所有指控，同时我们坚定地重申，我们致力于提供一个数字自卫工具平台，以满足活动人士以及其他个人、团体和协会对自由通信的需求。我们不会退缩，我们将继续做我们这些年来一直在做的事情，并将尽我们所能反击一个政治上绝望的政府所作出的虚假指控，其唯一目的是转移人们和媒体对他们自身暴力和战争贩子行为的注意力。反法西斯主义和反资本主义不是恐怖主义。抗议不是恐怖主义。每个人都有权发声并为人类而斗争。

Building on the social media bans of the preceding years, the terrorist designation of Autistici/Inventati is an effort to suppress dissident media and a significant step towards state repression on the basis of ideology alone. This will not stop with anarchist projects, but will eventually extend across the political spectrum to everyone who does not fall in line with the administration, unless the administration is removed from power. The danger to all will increase until that occurs. Of course, Donald Trump’s successors could keep repressive policies like this in place, much as Joe Biden did. We must make sure that there is enough political pressure on any political formation that could succeed the Trump presidency to compel them to roll back the repressive measures that Trump‘s administration introduced. 在过去几年社交媒体封禁的基础上，将 Autistici/Inventati 定性为恐怖组织是压制异见媒体的一种努力，也是仅基于意识形态进行国家镇压的重要一步。这不会止步于无政府主义项目，最终将扩展到整个政治光谱，波及所有不与政府保持一致的人，除非该政府被赶下台。在此之前，所有人的危险都将增加。当然，唐纳德·特朗普的继任者可能会像乔·拜登那样，继续维持这种压制性政策。我们必须确保对任何可能接替特朗普总统职位的政治团体施加足够的政治压力，迫使他们撤销特朗普政府引入的压制性措施。