The destruction of 3D printing: Bloomberg is behind it

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Printables needs to run a flash contest on models of this guy eating shit.

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• curbstickle@anarchist.nexus ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That… Completely tracks for Bloomberg.

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• jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  TLDW; billionaire Michael Bloomberg is behind multiple laws in mostly blue states to require spyware be added to all 3D printers under the banner of “gun control”.

  He’s attempted to hide this as a grassroots effort, when in reality it’s nearly completely funded by him and his organizations. There’s a call to action to contact your representatives if that legislation is being proposed in your state and voice your opposition to letting billionaires control what you can and cannot 3d print.

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  • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I see he’s afraid of a second Luigi

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  • potatopotato@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, for people who aren’t in the gun hobby space, Bloomberg in particular is really weird about guns. I’m not talking like effective ways of reducing violence, he’s constantly throwing money at pushing Kafkaesque regulations like this. His general strategy seems to be trying to reduce violent crime by making as much random unrelated stuff an arrestable offense as possible to the point where it (surprise) just makes it easier for cops to continue the cycle in low income communities.

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    • kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The goal of a lot of crap gun control (and a lot of weird regulation) is pretty clearly to de facto ban things by nickle and diming endless seemingly reasonable small safety measures that people ignorant of issues will vote for because they seem like easy common sense.

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    • tristynalxander@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I heard one of the Green Brothers claim that billionaires tend to develop really strange out of touch opinions. To me, they often seem a mixture of stupid and self-serving. I suspect any actual laws will be undermined within a month, but it’s really annoying that these people keep sticking their nose in other people’s business.

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    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sensible effective regulation is forbidden. All that’s left are desperate indirect efforts toward harm reduction.

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    • Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Literally criminalize as many people as possible, to reduce their financial liquidity and secure his place as a rich dude. Look at any Rich dudes actions and it’s all about making sure it’s harder for other people to get rich.

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  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not positive it’s completely about what you can and can’t print. It might also be about training AI on everyone’s 3d models.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think it’s an attack on Free Software and property rights (what some people minimize as “right to repair”).

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  • Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can you use the gun lobby loophole on everything banned for guns and buy your 3d printer as a kit?

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    • Addv4@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’re probably gonna try making the slicer send the print to a central server (based on what I was hearing about the California law), so while making a printer from a kit (like a Voron) isn’t a bad idea, they’re probably gonna try to aim for the software side. The whole thing is so dumb.

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• jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Follow up to this post from yesterday. sh.itjust.works/post/61272410

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