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.
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people have been making zip guns from hardware stores for years.
The gun industry has a huge business in selling parts no questions asked. The idea that you can print a functional gun out of plastic is bad science fiction.
This is more about fighting right to repair.
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it works for me, i checked just now
Now try on tor browser in safest mode. Or in a text based browser. It’s just an empty page.
Fuck sites that require javascript
Literally Think of the firearms!
Most people effected by this will be normies browsing for a printer for their kids. No one illegally printing guns will give any kind of a fuck when they have a garage full of DIY printers.
And people are buying printers that require cloud connections.
Don’t even need a DIY printer. No software is going to figure out every way it’s possible to split up a firearm into smaller parts that can be glued or screwed together.
Maybe they will be filtering based upon the file name and description :-)
Noted, totally_not_a_gun_pinky_promise.stl will print just fine
More laws written by people who have zero fucking idea what they’re writing laws about.
that would imply they’re not getting huge
bribessorry donations by people for them to write those exact lawsdon’t attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by malice.
The people writing the laws know exactly what they’re doing. Also, the people writing the laws are not necessarily the people passing the laws.
Lobbyists often will write laws, and then wine and dine lawmakers to pass them.
You don’t need a 3D printer to make firearms. There are tons of guides on improvised weapons for self-defense.
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.
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.
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.
Reminds me of how nobody can own fertilizer after the Oklahoma City bombing.
Pffft!
A trigger file will trigger the state gestapo.
On a sidenote, 3D printers have always felt like: Yo, let’s give plastic waste and plastic contaminants to the common man! In a perfect world we could regulate this kind of thing for the betterment of everyone.
I can print parts (and even invent them!) that I would otherwise have to order from China. And this with polymers that can be grown and recycled. That is definitely a huge improvement…
