[Discuss] Reactions to Defense Distributed?

Catarina Mota catarina at openmaterials.org
Fri Nov 1 22:46:30 UTC 2013


Emilio,

I'm more than happy to share when it's done, but since this is for my
dissertation it'll be a few months until everything is written and polished.

Cheers,
Catarina


On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Emilio Velis <contacto at emiliovelis.com>wrote:

> 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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