"Secretary of State Marco Rubio is attacking the group for running an online platform that the U.S. government can't spy on and for facilitating communications the U.S. government doesn't like. But precisely because Autistici/Inventati is based in another country—Italy—the U.S. government has basically unchecked power to impose counterterrorism sanctions on it."

It's hard to overstate how significant this is. Simply providing infrastructure independent of US tech giants is viewed as terrorism. The same could be said about most nodes on the Fediverse.

https://reason.com/2026/08/27/rubio-uses-terrorism-law-to-ban-secure-email-service/