Defending Rights & Dissent

Specifically, the Trump administration has likened them to the digital arm of Al-Qaeda, and in an unprecedented move, just added them to the list of global terrorist organizations, accusing them of providing digital services used by, among others, violent far-left American activists like Antifa, Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Hamas, and Hezbollah.

Chip Gibbons, director of the American organization Defending Rights and Dissent and a longtime observer of the US government's war on press and internet freedom, is quoted by Stefania saying, "The decision to sanction this group, this collective, as terrorists using the same scheme as applied to Al-Qaeda is deeply troubling.

First and foremost, the Trump administration has made clear that it-- that it is looking to tar the left as terrorists, and it seems clear this group was singled out for their left-wing political views.

Moreover, there is nothing unlawful about providing tech tools to political groups.