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- This offends me, because I believe code is speech, and speech should not be restricted.by swalsh
- There are plenty of reasons speech should be restricted. One of them is hate speech.by stockerta
- * Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D)
* Dr. Darshana R. Patel (D)
* Tim Grayson (D)
by exabrial - If you're in San Francisco, note that Catherine Stefani and Matt Haney both voted for this ridiculous bill.
Roll call: https://legiscan.com/CA/rollcall/AB2047/id/1702219
by tedd4u - As the latest affair shown, US is falling behind in drone tech. Now another key modern tech is going to be similarly outlawed.
Note that in particular banning of 3d printing severely decreases chances for bringing back manufacturing - high labor and other costs makes domestic manufacturing feasible only when it is highly automated and highly customizable.
by trhway - > As the latest affair shown, US is falling behind in drone tech. Now another key modern tech is going to be similarly outlawed.
My bet is the US militaro-industrial complex is busy preparing juicy contracts to sell shitload of drones and drones-related tech to the US government now that they understood that drones in warfare were a thing (Ukraine vs Russia showed it and Iran-vs-the-world showed it too).
The US has something like 12 tech companies in the top 20 biggest companies by market cap in the world: do you really think the US is "falling behind in drone tech" because a country that has never invented anything (besides mass killings of their own citizens) since religious extremists took over managed to fly a few low-tech drones into US military assets?
That a country bent on violence (including towards its own citizens) where pick-up trucks armed with .50 cal, AK47s and explosive are the norm can slap explosive on DJI drones is resourceful but I wouldn't exactly call it "passing ahead in drone tech".
I don't gamble but I'd make an exception and bet big that the US is going to end up right next to China, at the very top, when it comes to drone tech. While I fully expect the EU to fall behind in drone tech.
- Next they will ban hardware store ? Because you could make a weapon with that pipeby monax
- They'll also have to ban motors and microcontrollers. As they can be used to build 3D printers and drones.
Maybe they'll ban Github, too - as it hosts unregulated open source software that can power these scary tools.
by bluescrn - A single shopping to trip to Walmart or Home Depot can buy items that can be repurposed into bombs and physical and chemical weapons with only a little bit of know-how. Are we going to require mandatory ID and shopping cart analysis to all shopping too?by kersplody
- For a long time, you couldn’t buy “strike anywhere” matches because they could be used in producing meth.by smt88
- Sir are you a licensed chef of good standing in OnlyChef's database? That knife is dangerous. We can issue you a government approved plastic version if you need to cut something, but SoylentGreen(tm) is Ready-to-Scoop(tm)!by Avicebron
- Fun fact:
There is a law in California that has been interpreted to mean that all clubbing weapons are illegal. So if you by a length of pipe and keep it around (e.g. under your bed) explicitly for self-defense purposes, you have committed a crime.
IANAL, but as far as I can tell, keeping a shotgun in your home for self-defense purposes would be fine, as long as you aren't planning ahead of time to use it as a club.
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My information is slightly out-of-date; there was an injunction against enforcement in 2024 from Fouts v Bonta. I have no clue the injunction is or is not still in effect, so ask your lawyer before carrying a club.
by aidenn0 - Yeah you. Better get your printer air gapped because they are going to brick it in the name of getting re-electedby androiddrew
- Roll call from the Assembly vote: https://legiscan.com/CA/rollcall/AB2047/id/1702219by jshmrsn
- All those terrible republicans against this common sense bill.by fearmerchant
- NY is pushing the same sort of stuff. The question to ask is how many people are actually being killed with 3D printed weapons? I don't have that info, but I would guess they are statistical outliers and would have been replaced by other homemade weapons if not available. Politicians love to "fix" problems that aren't really problems in the first place.by giantg2
- The problem is there is a lot of garbage about it. Ghost guns are a real issue, but ghost guns are not 3D printed guns.
3D printed is a very niche case. They're only good for one shot ever, they are not reliable even for that. And they're bulky. The one thing they do is make it much harder for a metal detector to find them.
Ghost guns made by CNC milling equipment are nearly identical to what you would buy from the manufacturer, except they do not have a serial number and you won't have the background check for a firearms purchase.
But politicians are reacting to the ghost guns by going after the printed guns.
by LorenPechtel - Louis Rossman believes these bills are partly funded/lobbied for by Bloomberg.by denverllc
- Why does Bloomberg get into so much activism?by codazoda
- What is the assumed intention?by augstein
- I tried to photo copy a dollar bill when I was a kid on a dinky inkjet printer. It printed half way then spit out something about counterfeit prevention. I scanned the bill, printed the top half, fed the paper back in, and printed the bottom half. This can only actually stop the completely unmotivated.by deckar01
- Do printers still do that? I wonder if the tracking dots are still there as well, haven’t used a printer in a whileby an0malous
- You managed to defeat the first layer of defense - the warning. The yellow identifying dots were present on your printed copy, should you have decided become a precocious criminal successful enough to warrant the attention of the Secret Service.by overfeed
- If that becomes current law I don’t want to ever hear about Europe being over-regulated compared to the US…by dgellow
- california is the europe of the united states, for better or for worse.by whalesalad
- Regulatory speaking, California is America's Europe
- Well that's one state, and the one that fancies itself as the most European in spirit, at that.by xienze
- CA != USA.
USA has plenty of saner places. In fact, one could argue that CA is a local minimum for sanity in USA
by dmitrygr - You have to compare Europe to California.by paleotrope
- Americans are not allowed to buy Kinder eggs.