Antifa-linked sites go dark after State Department terror designation of tech collective
Websites tied to Portland’s Rose City Antifa and the militant abortion-rights group Jane’s Revenge began going dark in the days after the State Department designated their Italy-based technology provider a global terrorist entity.Fox News Digital first reported this week that the State Department had designated Autistici/Inventati, known as the A/I Collective, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist over its alleged support for violent far-left networks."Today’s news demonstrates the extent to which the A/I Collective was the digital infrastructure of the global Antifa terror network," a State Department official told Fox News Digital.RUBIO PUTS ENTIRE WORLD ON NOTICE AGAINST RISE OF 'POISONOUS' FAR-LEFT TERROR 'MASKED AS EQUALITY'Multiple groups, including Rose City Antifa and the Proud Boys protest in downtown Portland, Ore., Saturday, June 29, 2019.(Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP) "Just one day after the extremist collective was designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, an untold number of servers and websites — used by far-left extremists to plot violent attacks, target federal agents, and conceal their crimes from law enforcement — have been shut down," the official said.Among them was Rose City Counter-Info, a Portland-based website that the State Department says Rose City Antifa used to publish personal information about Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel and organize violent activity against federal agents.15 ANTIFA RADICALS INDICTED, 12 ARRESTED IN SWEEPING FEDERAL PROBE INTO MINNEAPOLIS ANTI-ICE OPERATIONSThe State Department said the group used the site to distribute an online flyer urging supporters to use laser pointers against Customs and Border Protection helicopters.
Federal records show one man later pleaded guilty to aiming a laser at a CBP helicopter, forcing the aircraft to abort a planned landing.Jane’s Revenge also used A/I services to publish communiqués claiming responsibility for attacks on pregnanc...