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Yep I just donated $1000
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Can I ask what you're hoping the organization does with that money? I'm genuinely interested in understanding what the expected outcome is.
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Servers, connection and maintenance costs... That is what they do. Read the manifesto.

> We react by providing a platform and tools for digital self-defense addressing the need of free communication for activists and other individuals

Yes, they select the users. But clearly to exclude services to those they would judge as bad actors!

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So you're in it purely for freedom of expression? I can get behind that, but after reading further it doesn't seem like they are about that at all, but rather are extremely selective and it has nothing to do with "bad acting."
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> reading further ... extremely selective and it has nothing to do with

What paragraphs inclined you to think that?

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> To be hosted on our servers you have to share our principles of anti-fascism, anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-homophobia, anti-transphobia, and anti-militarism.

Those stated beliefs are shockingly close to far-leftism. So I'm guessing the same radical exclusionary zeal is also being applied here.

Also, for clarity, I'm not taking those definitions literally, but rather as dog whistles for a very specific group of people (I'm from the Portland, OR area and I'm _very_ familiar with this group that has been terrorizing my poor city).

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> very specific group of people

These are Italians. There are all possibilities the spirits are different - unless globalization (of information and communication, "of culture") had merged the two.

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Which group of people are you taking it as a dog whistle for?
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>I'm not taking those definitions literally

Given that fascism had quite the bloodied history in Italy (see: Mussolini), and we're talking about a group literally based in Italy, why wouldn't you? Is it because you were unaware of said history in Italy and never experienced fascism first-hand, yourself?

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Why did you pick one thing on the list and ignore all of the others?
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Ouch.

A good friend of mine was charged with providing material support to terrorists for providing similar donations. And all his donations were prior to the US designating the recipients as terrorists. The government's arguments were "Yes yes, but you knew what you were supporting even though we hadn't designated them as such..."

Hope you're not in the US.

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Your friend has integrity and should hold their head up high they are fighting against oppressive bullshit
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Naive world view. They also filed other less serious charges against him (of which he may have been guilty). He intended to plead "Not guilty", but after 2.5 years of him being held before trial[1], they offered him a deal. Plead guilty and get 5 years, including time served.

He likely would have beaten the terrorism charges, but for the lesser charges it wasn't clear that he'd get a better prison sentence than the one he was being offered.

He took the deal and pleaded guilty.

Also, lawyers cost money - perhaps he couldn't afford to keep fighting through a trial. I also have another friend who had the same charges leveled against him (not for donations, but volunteering services). He did fight the charges and got acquitted. I don't know if it's true, but I heard it cost him well over $1M for his legal defense.

[1] Trials like these take a long time to prepare for, by both parties.

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I already agreed he has great integrity you’re just proving it further

Having values is expensive

Many people pay with their lives

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Well, after getting deported to a country he's never lived in, and separated from all his children, and possibly never getting a stable job because he declared he was involved in terrorism, and having his elderly mother not have anyone to take care of her while he was in prison ... I'm just not sure he wants to "hold his head high".

But sure, if anyone wants to pay in this fashion, I won't stop them.

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Do you really not care to know what the terrorist organization was before you assume that "they are fighting against oppressive bullshit"? Is A/I and ISIS the same to you?
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Nice! That’s genuinely worth praise
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You are a good person.
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