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.
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