Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves

MatSeFi@lemmy.liebeleu.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• buddascrayon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because it makes for a good distraction from actual problems that they don’t care to solve because those problems would require them to heavily tax millionaires and billionaires.

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• douglasg14b@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s not about firearms.

  It’s about controlling what you can 3D print.

  When your 3D printer has to connect to a third party service to check if it’s allowed to print what you just sent it. That’s a clear vector for companies to enforce IPs.

  Printing a replacement part for your appliance? Sorry, they’re blocked.

  Printing parts to repair part of your vehicle or snap something back on? Sorry, that’s banned.

  Printing something that resembles the intellectual property of any other company? Sorry, that’s banned.

  Also a mass surveillance device to produce surveillance of what people are 3D printing and report it to a central authority.

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  • MatSeFi@lemmy.liebeleu.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Ok however its hard for me to believe that such measures could render effective. Regulating the tech literate people in such a way will always fail. The only effect it could have is that when its illegal to posses a unregistered/hacked you are an easier target for “law enforcement actions”

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Boss, check out this gizmo that someone just printed in Sacramento!”

    "That’s a great idea! Patent it, then sue their ass!

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• ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because it makes firearms available to people without having to jump through hoops the government can track, but they can make a machine that makes flexi-dragons into a boogyman, so they throw a “protect the children” in the bill and it automatically passes.

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• alsimoneau@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because it doesn’t make money for Big War

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• Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because our government is run by old dumbasses.

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• Wilco@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because money. Firearms are everywhere in the US because of gun lobbyists. If citizens print their own guns then money is lost.

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• ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Because between them, the legislators don’t have two brain-cells to rub together and figure out why this is an un-enforceable bunch of bullshit.

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• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There are a few layers to it.

  On the surface, the excuse they give is that printed guns don’t have serial numbers and thus can’t be tracked. They call them “ghost guns” to instill an element of horror in the messaging.

  If you dig a bit deeper, you’ll see that it’s the same old tactic of manufacturing outrage and spreading fear in order to manipulate the masses. Even when people supposedly see through it, on the collective level it still works. So it seems to be an effective tool, which encourages them to keep using it.

  On a deeper level than that, it’s a trojan horse. Just one more way to restrict consumers rather than holding corporations accountable. One more way to maintain their hold on people’s wallets. 3D printers give people too much autonomy, enabling them to be self-reliant. The people benefiting from the current system can’t have that, they won’t tolerate it. “No, you’ll spend $50 on that action figure, and if you need ten of them you can either cough up the dough or go to hell.” Basically.

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  See Luigi.

  It’s not the gun, it’s gun makers worried about DIY gunsmithing. The politicians are just the bitches.

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• CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Also not from America, but I assume this is just the same sort of thinking as trying to ban trench coats after the Columbine shooting, IE: they have to look like they’re doing something, but they can’t do the actual thing that would solve the problem because there’s too much money involved and they’re greedy cowards.

  Also it’s weird that Teen Vogue was the best source that came up when I searched for that lol.

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• ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Just like all the “for the kids” bullshit excuses to enact draconian population monitoring, this system will make it harder for small manufacturing shops to compete with the mega corps.

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