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After 25 years, Italian email provider Autistici/Inventati shuts down due to US government pressure
Strongly related to US government sanctions Autistici Inventati, Italian pro-privacy email provider.
https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/a/i-shuts-down-stay-human/
Not much to say about this, but it's sad. 25 years as a non-profit email provider is a long time, all ended because of pressure from a country on the other side of the world. Not many email providers get that old.
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It's possible they are continuing under a different name, only shrugging off the organisation name and its terrorist designation. If they were doing this, nobody would know.
They're a small group and all the donation money they've collected has been seized by their Italian bank (because the bank is afraid of secondary sanctions), and it costs them over 13k EUR annually to run everything. Now they have nothing. It also takes a lot of time to build up a good reputation and user base.
I think they really are shutting down.
Should have gone to RU
I'm pretty sure an anti-authoritarian collective would rather not be under the jurisdiction of yet another authoritarian government.