Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software, the California State Assembly has signed off on legislation to do just that. In the process, legislators amended the bill to make it even more confusing, while failing to address the risks to privacy, speech, and consumer rights. We must renew our call on legislators to drop this bill as it heads to the state senate, and protect the tools of creators in the state.
  • ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.comEnglish
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    25 days ago

    You can buy whole kits to build your own, the capacity to control what is made with the is about as much as if you tried to ban someone with a table saw from building a birdhouse.

    • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      25 days ago

      tried to ban someone with a table saw from building a birdhouse.

      Thats a perfectly succinct analogy.

      • Lung@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        25 days ago

        Pretty sure you could make a gun too, which is the point of this 3D printer thing

        And like what about other CNC machines?

        I like that California is on the frontier of many tech laws, but this and the age thing are particularly dumb lately

        • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          25 days ago

          I made an AR15 with a hobby drill press from Lowes at work. Give me a hunk of metal, a micrometer and a file and I can make you a gun.

          Or worse.

          • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
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            23 days ago

            And that is illegal, as it should be. The efficacy of a law has nothing to do with whether it’s moral.

            It’s like saying “we don’t have the manpower to police murder effectively, so we are gonna legalize murder”. It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what the law is fucking for.