tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post3884278946268424412..comments2024-02-05T03:41:13.688+01:00Comments on Mikeb302000: 3-D Printed Gun Lawsuit Starts the War Between Gun Control and Free SpeechAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-51133927910189373612015-05-10T19:11:18.253+02:002015-05-10T19:11:18.253+02:00Of course, the State Department’s two years of inv...<i>Of course, the State Department’s two years of invoking ITAR against Defense Distributed haven’t prevented its 3-D printable gun files from spreading across the web. Instead, a Streisand-Effect-like fear of government censorship helped spur more than 100,000 downloads of the Liberator blueprint in two days.</i><br /><br />And I'd wager that I was among the first thousand--certainly among the first ten thousand.<br /><br />Surest way to get me to do something: try to prevent me from doing it.<br /><br />Defy. Resist. Smuggle.Kurt '45superman' Hofmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14091930034162667742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-90396852250838779742015-05-09T23:49:58.032+02:002015-05-09T23:49:58.032+02:00Of course it could be done.
Sure, the government ...<i>Of course it could be done.</i><br /><br />Sure, the government can pass all the anti-free speech laws restricting the dissemination of such information it wants, and it's hardly inconceivable that the courts would let them get away with it.<br /><br />And <i>it doesn't matter</i>. The information <b>cannot be stopped</b>. If it becomes "illegal" to post those files, they'll be anonymously leaked to off-shore bittorrent sties (as has already happened, as SSG has noted), and the statist crybabies are <b>powerless</b> to stop it.<br /><br />And I <i>revel</i> in it. Let freedom ring.Kurt '45superman' Hofmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14091930034162667742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-54849525621846094132015-05-09T14:43:18.185+02:002015-05-09T14:43:18.185+02:00I kinda liked it.I kinda liked it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-2751636317392850392015-05-09T14:42:25.759+02:002015-05-09T14:42:25.759+02:00Of course it could be done. If only there'd b...Of course it could be done. If only there'd been a sensible paradigm of proper gun control in the US, restricting this nonsense would have been part of that.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-15402138624081534282015-05-08T18:48:33.762+02:002015-05-08T18:48:33.762+02:00FJ - Freedom of the press. He is not handing anyo...FJ - Freedom of the press. He is not handing anyone a physical gun, he is imparting knowledge on how to make a gun. That is free expression. That would be like saying you can't publish the blueprints to a house you designed because someone else may take those blueprints and build a house from them without having to pay someone to draw the blueprints for them. This seems pretty clear cut to me. JimFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-67660172250247530122015-05-08T17:08:24.768+02:002015-05-08T17:08:24.768+02:00It's just information. Spreading information ...It's just information. Spreading information is part of free speech.TShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04667036856347626234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-56753238183645346362015-05-08T16:31:30.749+02:002015-05-08T16:31:30.749+02:00How the hell is the blueprint for a printable gun ...<i>How the hell is the blueprint for a printable gun equated with free speech?</i><br /><br />When people are not permitted to share information they have generated, it's <i>always</i> a free speech issue.<br /><br /><i>How about you dicks f**k the off?</i><br /><br />Um--is that a California expression? If so, I don't think it has made its way this far east yet.Kurt '45superman' Hofmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14091930034162667742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-41144549793339416522015-05-08T16:02:41.511+02:002015-05-08T16:02:41.511+02:00It didn't work out for them the last time they...It didn't work out for them the last time they invoked this law to restrict code,<br /><br />"ITAR already has a long history of being used to threaten Americans who publish controversial code. In the 1990s, the same regulations were used to threaten cryptographers with prosecution for posting online the first freely available strong encryption tools. Under ITAR regulations, a piece of uncrackable crypto software like PGP was considered a military munition."<br /><br />"The Justice Department eventually dropped that investigation without an indictment or an explanation. But before it did, the cryptographer Dan Bernstein sued the State Department, arguing that ITAR was an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment. He won."<br /><br /> And of course, its a bit slow on the draw on restricting Defense Distributed,<br /><br />"Of course, the State Department’s two years of invoking ITAR against Defense Distributed haven’t prevented its 3-D printable gun files from spreading across the web. Instead, a Streisand-Effect-like fear of government censorship helped spur more than 100,000 downloads of the Liberator blueprint in two days. By the time the file was removed from Defense Distributed’s websites, it had already appeared on the Pirate Bay and other bittorrent sites, where it’s become nearly impossible to erase. And in the years since, amateur gunsmiths on sites like FOSSCad and GrabCAD have continued to evolve the Liberator’s design and share their own blueprints for 3-D printable revolvers and rifles."<br /><br /> ssgmarkcrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14480230040370709682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-77196928950818673722015-05-08T08:57:11.969+02:002015-05-08T08:57:11.969+02:00How the hell is the blueprint for a printable gun ...How the hell is the blueprint for a printable gun equated with free speech?<br /><br />How about you dicks fuck the off?Flying Juniorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02098313953658606206noreply@blogger.com