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
    2 hours

    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
      2 hours

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

      Thats a perfectly succinct analogy.

      • Lung@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 hours

        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

        • mctoasterson@reddthat.comEnglish
          2 hours

          Nobody tell California about a nail combined with certain diameters of pipe, because guess what, those can become guns too.

          • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
            48 minutes

            zip guns, lets bring in slam fired shotguns.

            Never doubt the ingenuity of man killing other men.

        • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1 hour

          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.