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.
Should we remind them their own department of war once published tm 31-210, that happens to have mindnumbingly simplr gun making instructions with pictures? If sb wants to make a gun and doesn’t give a fuck about laws, they’ll make it not only regardless of unenforceable restrictions, but even regardless whether or not they have a 3d printer.
New York has a departement of war?
I mean, given possessive pronouns (?) do a full 180 in terms of meaning once it comes to power structures (our
dictatorpresident =dictatorpresident over us), they kinda do