The Dangers of California’s Legislation to Censor 3D Printing
Posted by PrivacyWire
California’s bill, A.B. 2047, will not only mandate censorware — software which exists to bluntly block your speech as a user — on all 3D printers; it will also criminalize the use of open-source alternatives. Repeating the mistakes of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies won’t make anyone s
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tomspark wrote:
This is a genuinely terrible bill. Criminalizing open-source software is insane — that's the exact playbook that killed innovation around encryption tools in the 90s, and we're still dealing with the fallout.
tomspark wrote:
This is exactly the kind of overreach that kills innovation. Criminalizing open-source alternatives is insane — you're basically saying "use our approved software or go to jail," which nobody should tolerate.