# A/I Shuts Down Stay Human · Keep the Internet free

Source: https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/a/i-shuts-down-stay-human
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/AI-Shuts-Down-Stay-Human-Keep-the-Internet-free?index=0x6a9ed495270f7e2d483b3faf00dd875a1bbc4dca95abc83ba98ec2a01a0667ff36fc4b4c
Submitted by misha on 2026-09-07 UTC, 2 upvotes, 0 comments

## Summary

Autistici/Inventati (A/I), a 25-year-old collective that provides privacy-friendly, non-commercial digital services, announced that it is shutting down and will soon discontinue all of its services. The collective says it was designated a global terrorist organization and that continuing to operate endangers its users and members of its communities, given possible legal and financial consequences and repression it expects to grow. It advises users that it will soon send instructions for backing up blogs, mailboxes and websites, and warns that the autistici.org domain was already made unreachable without notice and further disruptions may occur.

## Article

Sep 6, 2026

The day we discovered we had been designated a global terrorist organization, we promised that we would try to resist as long as this was possible, that we would not back down as long as we could see options to stand our ground. For years, we have proudly maintained and defended a free, privacy-friendly, autonomous and politically committed infrastructure.

“Stay human” is not an empty phrase to us.

It means, above all, that we have a responsibility to protect our users, those who build the human networks we rely, and for the communities who flooded us with messages of support and solidarity.

We cannot engage in a fight or expose ourselves to manipulations that threaten the lives of these people and their loved ones, leaving them at the mercy of autocrats, fascists and agencies that take extra-legal courses of action. The possibility that our work may cause legal and financial consequences to those who are close to us - or even only have something to do with us - leaves us no choice.

A/I is shutting down. The Autistici/Inventati collective is shutting down and will soon discontinue all of the services we provide.

There is no easy way to announce or explain this

Every day we stayed online after August 26, 2026, has been a victory, but now we are forced to stop.

None of us holds eroic gestures and martyrs in high esteem, therefore we will demand no sacrifices. Not from us, not from anyone else. In this political climate, continuing to offer our services endangers our users and anyone who is part of our communities. In a world where allegations are disconnected from reality, we can only expect repression to be increasingly disproportionate. Under these circumstances, we are no longer able to maintain our original mission - offering secure and non-commercial digital tools.

These 25 years have been amazing. It’s been an “incredible ride”.

Now turn off your PCs, get out of your homes, struggle, hug each other and keep on smiling. We are stopping, but the Resistance and ideas do not stop. Stay human.

We will soon send instructions on how to back up the content of your blogs, mailboxes and websites, along with more technical recommendations. But keep in mind that, just as the autistici.org domain was made unreachable without previous notice, in the next few days we might suffer similar issues that we may not be able to predict.

Autistici/Inventati Collective