Stop New York's Attack on 3D Printing / CNC Machines
Posted by EFForg@reddit | hardware | View on Reddit | 43 comments
New Yorkers, the proposed 2026-2027 budget includes provisions that will require all CNC machines, including all 3D printers, sold in the state to run print-blocking censorware—software that surveils every print for forbidden designs. This policy would also create felony charges for possessing or sharing certain design files. The vote on the state budget could happen as early as this upcoming week, so New Yorkers need to act fast and demand that their Assemblymembers and Senators strip this provision from the budget.
hardware-ModTeam@reddit
Post locked.
Not a single comment here was discussing "HOW" it may be implemented, which would have actually been a relevant discussion for this subreddit.
Instead, you're all discussing the "WHY", and especially focusing on the political aspects. There are plenty of other subreddit's for that.
tech-learner@reddit
Is Mamdani at the helm of this?
phigo50@reddit
When you're done learning about tech, move on to learning about reading.
UnsolicitedPeanutMan@reddit
No, this is NYS, not NYC
El_Chupacabra-@reddit
The absolute juxtaposition of the comments on 8 children being killed in a mass shooting where people sarcastically comment that we'll continue to do nothing. And then this thread. Lmao.
deltalimes@reddit
Did he make the gun at home?
El_Chupacabra-@reddit
Do you wait until the next mass shooting with a printed gun to act?
Bradnon@reddit
Why wait for someone to commit a crime, just move them from the nursery to a cell.
El_Chupacabra-@reddit
Huh
haroldstickyhands@reddit
Let’s just ban everything that could ever be used in a crime, and imprison everyone that might ever do a crime
El_Chupacabra-@reddit
That's a pretty strong reaction
haroldstickyhands@reddit
Do you wait until after a crime to act?
deltalimes@reddit
Pretty sure there hasn’t even been a mass shooting with a 3d printed gun
El_Chupacabra-@reddit
I meant "a", yes.
MotherFunker1734@reddit
Why is it always the same guys trying to ruin all the fun for everybody???
Why does it always comes from the same fucking country??
Why is USA full of shitty people??
Why this keeps happening over and over and over again with multiple topics? Why are you so full of fucking control freaks all along your shitty history?
Why?
Why?
Why you just can't stop?
Why?
Tamuru@reddit
Because a few hundred years ago Europe took all their shitty people, tossed them on a boat and said go live over there, and they bastards took root like an infection instead of dying of exposure. Thanks Puritanism.
User-NetOfInter@reddit
lol and what country are you from? Canada? Home of the French?
Which monarchy is in your money again?
Terrh@reddit
Is whataboutism going to fix it?
Bradnon@reddit
Yep. It's funny when people use "Ya'll Quaeda" to make fun of American gun-nuts/militias/hate groups (as they should, but) as if America wasn't founded just as much on religious extremism.
carloselcoco@reddit
Not even a few hundred years. This also occured less than 100 years ago. Or have we forgot that most of the major advancements on all fronts post WWII came from former mustache man compatriots that fled Europe to escape persecution and those who did not escape were given a free ride into immortality by governments as long as they worked for them.
HIGH_PRESSURE_TOILET@reddit
The USA is indeed full of shitty people but Europe and the UK have had their share of digital freedom restricting laws too. Like age verification laws and stuff.
Adz612@reddit
It's because the governments realize these technologies are obsoleting them. Hence the clampdowns...
algaefied_creek@reddit
California is doing the same thing.
It’s almost like big tech has bought and sold politicians across the board for asinine policies.
Rushing it through means they know it’s unpopular but donors, ey pals?
deltalimes@reddit
It’s not any deeper than “anti-gun hysteria”
FilteringAccount123@reddit
Specifically, it's was Mario's green brother who had a "ghost gun"
It's anti-gun hysteria from rich people who don't want to get mama-mia'd
deltalimes@reddit
The problem is that people can have a lot of ingenuity when it comes to finding ways to kill people. The guy who assassinated Shinzo Abe made a gun out of stuff from a hardware store. Luigi probably still would have been successful if he just had a knife…
FilteringAccount123@reddit
Oh I don't agree with this at all. I'm just saying, before we get out the cork boards and the red yarn out to try and connect the dots to some sinister corporate plot... this is the whole reason why it's happening lol
FrivolousMe@reddit
It's not just anti gun hysteria. It's anti Luigi hysteria, and guess who the anti Luigi folks are
Dr_Valen@reddit
Lol it ain’t asinine it’s the first step to them getting in policy to censor any designs that make it easier to fix stuff that big companies would rather not be fixed except by their overpriced techs like John Deere
Vb_33@reddit
Funny how they're against 3D printers but not cheap offshore/imported labor.
Dependent-Zebra-4357@reddit
Well yeah, the more things you can print/make yourself, the less you have to buy from their corporate backers.
NoMechanic6746@reddit
Yes, I said in my previous comment, this kind of things sets a dangerous precedent far beyond New York. Of course California can't be different. We need some federal action in first place to avoid what they try to do.
dingo_xd@reddit
This is as unconstitutional as it gets.
deltalimes@reddit
They are rationalizing this as an attack on the 2nd amendment instead of the 1st (or 4th) which makes it ok for some reason
fathed@reddit
It's a commerce regulation.
The commerce clause has been stretched so far that growing your own food and eating it can be considered illegal.
dingo_xd@reddit
How dare you drink unpasteurized milk!
sithtimesacharm@reddit
I'm sorry that Constitution has been replaced with a profitability Matrix benefiting the oligarchy.
Loose_Skill6641@reddit
lol at people trying to print guns
sweet_chin_music@reddit
What do you mean "trying"?
LoveWashingDishes@reddit
Well I guess it’s a good thing that dems don’t run the entire county. These laws have no teeth and will not be enforced federally. Worst case scenario, I’ll be importing them (or their parts) from other states.
NoMechanic6746@reddit
Crazy thing, I hope NewYorkers contact their representatives quickly (not sure if they could help after the latest facts). This kind of thing sets a dangerous precedent far beyond New York. We will cover it and spread the word from our editorial.
danb1kenobi@reddit
Latest facts? Asking for a friend in NYC
NoMechanic6746@reddit
friend of mine too LoL 👍