14 September 2026
The US Designates Italian Autistici/Inventati as a Global Terrorist
On 26 August 2026, the US designated Autistici/Inventati, 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. But the freeze is the least significant part of the measure. The effect is expulsion from the infrastructure of digital existence, without any court in Italy ever having issued a ruling. That architecture, not the individual designation, is the problem European democracies need to engage with. Continue reading >>
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30 July 2026
Binding Without Debating
In early June 2026, the COREPER authorized the European Commission to formalize the EU’s participation in Pax Silica, the US-led semiconductor supply-chain initiative. By June 26, the European Union was a formal signatory. The process was orderly. It was also, by any meaningful democratic standard, invisible. No European Parliament debate preceded the authorization. No impact assessment was published. No connection was drawn to a parallel development: the entry into force of the GENIUS Act, the US stablecoin law. The EU bound itself to one American architecture while remaining structurally exposed to another. Continue reading >>
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