Monday, August 02, 2021

You CAN Stop the Signal?

 It’s clear these new licensing requirements will be used to target websites hosting technical data and software. Now, the Biden-Harris administration can shutdown sites for not having govt issued license. And it appears the rule change will now give them the legal authority to ban 3D printed guns. [More]

Don't think of it as a totalitarian government that has unconstitutionally empowered itself to ban knowledge. Think of it as commonsense information safety laws.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Well, we know The Digital Millennium Copyright Act stopped the pirating of music, movies, and other software cold.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/17/18412159/game-of-thrones-got-season-8-premiere-pirated-55-million-times-first-24-hours-hbo

So I'm quite sure the people who run all the Pirate Bay clones will immediately remove anything related to 3D printed firearms.

Let's see what the Rolling Stones think.

"And your father's still perfecting ways of making sealing wax" -- 19th Nervous Breakdown