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They Just Made It Illegal To Use Your Own Tools (youtu.be)

submitted 3 days ago by frankthetankPA@lemmy.today to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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First tool ban is here! A new law was just signed in New York that requires blueprint blocking technology on every CNC machine, laser cutter, lathe and 3D printer. This affects everyone who makes, builds or fixes things. This isn't a firearms law. It's a manufacturing law. And they buried it in the budget because they knew exactly what it was.

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[–] mech@feddit.org 76 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (12 children)

The state now controls the means of production?
Sounds dangerously Communist!

[–] frankthetankPA@lemmy.today 40 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Socialism for the rich, unions for the dogs and scraps for the rest.

[–] lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Unions are for everyone, what?

[–] frankthetankPA@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

no I agree but if you take a look at the USA from afar then it appears this way. It is no me not wanting unions its the other way around.

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