14 September 2026 The US Designates Italian Autistici/Inventati as a Global Terrorist Marco Perugini Marco Perugini is an independent researcher and founder of Centrifuga Lab, working on empirical measurement of power concentration in digital infrastructure, financial architecture, and markets. How US Sanctions Expose the EU’s Inability to Set the Terms for Its Own Infrastructure On 26 August 2026, the US Department of State designated <https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/08/designatio...> Autistici/Inventati (A/I), a volunteer-run Italian technology collective that has provided encrypted email and hosting to activist groups since 2001, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist under Executive Order 13224. The designation freezes all A/I assets under US jurisdiction. After a wind-down deadline <https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0599> of 25 September, any US person or entity is prohibited from transacting with the collective. But the freeze itself is probably the least significant part of the measure. What matters is the compliance cascade it sets in motion: banks, payment processors, domain registrars, hosting providers, and certificate authorities that maintain any dollar-denominated nexus face obligations that make continued dealings with a designated entity commercially untenable. The effect is expulsion from the infrastructure of digital existence, without any court in Italy ever having issued a ruling. Early commentary has correctly identified the de-risking mechanism at work. Beniamino Irdi, at the German Marshall Fund, observed <https://decode39.com/16319/autistici-inventati-case-sets-a-new-counterterror...> that the designation targets infrastructure rather than operations, and that the real bite lies in preemptive severance by intermediaries. This is accurate, but it treats the designation as a standalone event. It was not. The A/I case is the first operational output of a policy architecture that was declared publicly, built over six months, and documented on primary US government sources throughout. That architecture, not the individual designation, is the problem European democracies need to engage with. The Doctrinal Sequence On 6 May 2026, the White House released its Counterterrorism Strategy <https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-USCT-Strategy-1.p...> (CT) for the second Trump term. [...] continua qui: https://verfassungsblog.de/the-us-designates-italian-autistici-inventati-as-...