JWM (Joe No Se)Apr 2

These laws are absurd, forcing 3D printer manufacturers to literally implement the plainer of @pluralistic ’s #unauthorizedbread

Manufacturers have plenty of incentive to enshittify their products without states forcing them to.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/print-blocking-wont-work-permission-print-part-2

Print Blocking Won't Work - Permission to Print Part 2

Legislators across the U.S. are proposing laws to force “blueprint blockers” on 3D printers sold in their states. This mandated censorware is doomed to fail for its intended purpose, but will still manage to hurt the professional and hobbyist communities relying on these tools.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Show threadsalguod, man 🍂🍁 lazysupperApr 3

@ildiavolorosso

Only in America can printer laws be stricter than actual gun laws.

@pluralistic

Show threadRobin Adams
@lazysupper @ildiavolorosso @pluralistic Well, yeah. The freedom to own arms is so important they made it the second amendment. If the freedom to print stuff was so important they would have made it, like, the first.
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Show threadTeflonTrout  he/himApr 3

@robinadams @lazysupper @ildiavolorosso @pluralistic

That is a very slick joke, well done

Show threadWesDymApr 3

@robinadams 2A is misunderstood by nearly everyone, including the majority of our federal justices (who are not historians, and didn't bother to consult any).

It was never intended to confer a personal and individual "freedom to own arms". Our Framers would find our modern interpretation INSANE, and they'd be right to think that.

Show threadWesDymApr 3
@robinadams Separately, the use of "print" here is misapplied, and irrelevant to 1A. 1A is about media, not manufacturing. That a device we consider to be similar to a printer is used in 3D 'printing' does not confer 1A principles upon it.
Show threaditgrrl Apr 3

@wesdym @robinadams

counterpoint: 💁‍♀️

Show threadEric LawtonApr 3

@robinadams

I look forward to the SCOTUS case on applying 1A to 3D printers.

@lazysupper @ildiavolorosso @pluralistic

Show threadJWM (Joe No Se)Apr 3

@EricLawton @robinadams @lazysupper @pluralistic I suppose that begs the question of "WHICH Supreme Court?"

Why do I have a sneaking feeling that the current court would find an intellectually-tortured way to keep the enshittifying law on the books in the name of corporate free speech?

Show threaditgrrl Apr 3

@EricLawton @robinadams @lazysupper @ildiavolorosso @pluralistic

“Exhibit A, Your Honour”

https://infosec.exchange/@itgrrl/116341560823129177

itgrrl :donor: (@[email protected])

Attached: 3 images @[email protected] @[email protected] counterpoint: 💁‍♀️

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