There’s been a flood of new state laws placing restrictions on 3D printing that are driven by sloppy moral panics about 3D printed guns (and a desire by large manufacturers to dominate the ma…
That was the idea. Tech companies don‘t want us to have nice things because it makes their products look all the more shitty. And so they attack anything open source that they don‘t directly benefit from. Some investors are probably seeing the shitty ink printer business and hope they can degrade 3D printing to that degree too. They take any opportunity to fuck the small people for a chance of making an easy buck.
Meanwhile, you can go to the hardware store and make yourself a shotgun for less than the cost of a fast food meal but nobody is talking about regulating pipes.
That was the idea. Tech companies don‘t want us to have nice things because it makes their products look all the more shitty. And so they attack anything open source that they don‘t directly benefit from. Some investors are probably seeing the shitty ink printer business and hope they can degrade 3D printing to that degree too. They take any opportunity to fuck the small people for a chance of making an easy buck.
Meanwhile, you can go to the hardware store and make yourself a shotgun for less than the cost of a fast food meal but nobody is talking about regulating pipes.
This has nothing to do with the tech industry. This is the firearms industry 100%.