JWM (Joe No Se)2d ago

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 🍂🍁 lazysupper1d ago

@ildiavolorosso

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

@pluralistic

Show threadRobin Adams1d ago
@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.
Show threadWesDym1d ago
@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.
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@wesdym @robinadams

counterpoint: 💁‍♀️

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