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

submitted 4 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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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 6 points 3 days ago

I try to consider what would happen if someone actually had the integrity to stand up to this shit.

They'd get outed for holding back the budget. Media would be all over it framing them as being obstructionist.

It'd require some balls and connection to the media to set the story straight.

But it'd also require that they even know about what they're voting for. These kinds of changes are deliberately being shoveled onto the cart after train has started running. You'd have to hire a team to read everything as soon as it written and demand that changes are published before voting, which it is sometimes isn't, so this is something that also have to be addressed all the while the media is shooting at you.

The best thing would be to allow a complete breakdown. Don't pass anything. See what happens and who the people support when they're hungry.