New York’s state budget could pass within days. Buried deep in the text is a provision that has nothing to do with balancing the books. Part C of the budget bill would require every 3D printer sold in New York to run surveillance software that scans every design file you create, and blocks anything an algorithm flags as a potential firearm component . A separate provision would expose researchers, journalists, and educators to felony charges simply for possessing or sharing certain design files.
You don’t need a 3D printer to make firearms. There are tons of guides on improvised weapons for self-defense.
Reminds me of how nobody can own fertilizer after the Oklahoma City bombing.
Pffft!
i’m beginning to suspect this has “don’t 3d print replacement parts for our proprietary garbage” vibes to it.
firearms are the think of the kids of this attempt.
And if they cared about kids, they’d do something about school shootings, like go after parents.
or after guns. or after the system that breaks literal kids that hard. or actually send in their police force instead of letting them cowardly sit outside.
i didn’t need to have my faith in humanity shaken at this hour, but fuck.
Exactly. Once the infrastructure is there, they can slowly start banning anything they want. They can DMCA physical items since they were shared through digital means. Broken parts fixed by 3d printing are “circumventing the digital lock” of not wanting you to print a part yourself.
The physical world now has a Terms of Service, and you implicitly agreed by existing.
fuck that. we are now part of the resistance.