cross-posted from: https://libretechni.ca/post/1263630
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.
I mean you’re looking at what it will take to fully control guns in America.
Any second thoughts?
Yes, instead of trying with laws that are getting sillier and sillier, try to make just one that make sense.
This has nothing to do with guns. That’s just the excuse. This is to kill our rights to self repair.
It is both. And one is necessary for the other.
I mean, even that isn’t going to work, there’ll be ways around it. “Old” printers, 3rd party firmware, jailbroken printers, etc. Life uh, finds a way.