[Discuss] Reactions to Defense Distributed?

[Emilio Velis]

Catarina, do you have content already available on the subject? I'm very
interested in reading some.
El oct 31, 2013 12:00 p.m., "Catarina Mota" <catarina at openmaterials.org>
escribió:

> Thanks Ben, I did see that. Poor man, this totally sucks. I wonder what
> prompted those raids in the first place.
>
> Thanks Alicia, that's exactly what I was looking for! I'm writing about
> technology agnosticism - that truly revolutionary technologies can be used
> for many purposes, some we like, some we don't - the Internet is a great
> example of that.
>
> Excellent blog post Michael, thank you for sharing! It has a lot of the
> information I was looking for. I'll also make sure to point people to it
> next time the weapons question comes up.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Michael Weinberg <
> mweinberg at publicknowledge.org> wrote:
>
>> It may (or may not) be relevant to keep in mind the history that
>> occurred  before Cody's project.  The first 3D printed gun upload by
>> HaveBlue was built upon work by the CNCGuns.com community.  This community,
>> which was new to me but has been around for some time, had long made
>> available files that could be downloaded, put into a machine, and turned
>> into a (metal) gun.  So, while DD got a lot of attention, it raised a lot
>> fewer policy/legal questions than initially appeared.
>>
>> Or at least that's what we have been telling all of the lawmakers that we
>> met with since the first stories broke.
>>
>> For what it's worth, here<http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/3d-printing-guns-and-dealing-new-uses>'s
>> the blog post version of our messaging to lawmakers.  I know it isn't
>> exactly what you are looking for, but it is a response that has resonated
>> reasonably well with people who might try to regulate 3D printing.  So it
>> might possibly be a helpful data point.
>>
>> -michael
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:06 PM, alicia <amgibb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> There's a hackaday article, which fits somewhat into those categories,
>>> maybe more of a hacker community, but I think it's what you're getting at:
>>>
>>> http://hackaday.com/2013/05/06/the-first-3d-printed-gun-has-been-fired-and-i-dont-care/
>>> But that's the only one I can think of from the hacker/maker community.
>>>
>>> My personal opinion is tech can be used for good and evil as cited by Technological
>>> determinism <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_determinism>
>>>  and Neil Postman <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Postman>, which
>>> you've probably already read :)
>>>
>>> Alicia
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Catarina Mota <
>>> catarinamfmota at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to take a deeper look at the open source, 3D printable
>>>> weapons issue. Although I found many videos and articles about Defense
>>>> Distributed, I haven't been able to find any comments or reactions from the
>>>> open source / maker community. Does anyone know of any public reactions or
>>>> comments on this topic?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Catarina
>>>>
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