A/I shuts down – Stay human
The Autistici/Inventati (A/I) collective is shutting down its privacy-focused digital infrastructure after 25 years. The group cites legal and political pressures, stating they can no longer protect their users from potential state-level repression.
Why it matters
This marks the end of a long-standing grassroots effort to provide secure, non-commercial digital tools, highlighting the increasing difficulty of maintaining privacy-centric infrastructure in a hostile political climate.
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.
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