Yet another Hacker News

Seized server Autistici/Inventati (A/I) in Amsterdam for U.S. authorities

22 points oriettaxx 1 hour ago 9 comments

deaux 53 minutes ago | parent

That's the kowtowing we know. Tough talk about protecting the ICC but when push comes to shove, kneeling and kissing the ring of authoritarian regimes.

HelloUsername 46 minutes ago | parent

Discussion: "Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request (nrc.nl)" 14.oct.2026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50090084 171 comments

jubilanti 34 minutes ago | parent

It is still wild to me than no European laws were broken, yet the US can just declare a group of EU citizens a terrorist organization and the EU is compelled to do whatever the US says. Does the EU have sovereignty? Where did they sign that away?

gvfsa 17 minutes ago | parent

There are lots of treaties that govern the cooperation between the justice system of the US and those of other countries. You can ask your LLM of choice about this particular case if you want to know more.

BLKNSLVR 30 minutes ago | parent

I don't think any good can come from what this implies about the increasing paranoia of the US government.

It's also interesting that the Dutch seemingly readily complied. I guess it's a relatively small thing in the grand scheme of potential war with Russia.

the_sleaze_ 10 minutes ago | parent

Recently dealt with a EU company who readily allows hacking from their systems without regard to the victims whatsoever.

There are bad people everywhere and countries uniting against them is a good thing.

anthonj 26 minutes ago | parent

I'm a but surprised that such group didn't have some kind of fallback or decentralised server. No presence on tor or similar?

sixhobbits 7 minutes ago | parent

They had already shut down when this server was seized I think

https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/a/i-shuts-down-stay-huma...

> 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.

So it's human/political distribution rather than infrastructure now