<div dir="ltr">Thanks Ben, I did see that. Poor man, this totally sucks. I wonder what prompted those raids in the first place.<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Michael Weinberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mweinberg@publicknowledge.org" target="_blank">mweinberg@publicknowledge.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br>
<br>Or at least that's what we have been telling all of the lawmakers that we met with since the first stories broke. <br><br>For what it's worth, <a href="http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/3d-printing-guns-and-dealing-new-uses" target="_blank">here</a>'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. <br>
<br></div>-michael<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 1:06 PM, alicia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amgibb@gmail.com" target="_blank">amgibb@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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:<div>
<a href="http://hackaday.com/2013/05/06/the-first-3d-printed-gun-has-been-fired-and-i-dont-care/" target="_blank">http://hackaday.com/2013/05/06/the-first-3d-printed-gun-has-been-fired-and-i-dont-care/</a><br>
</div><div>But that's the only one I can think of from the hacker/maker community.</div><div><br></div><div>My personal opinion is tech can be used for good and evil as cited by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_determinism" target="_blank">Technological determinism </a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Postman" target="_blank">Neil Postman</a>, which you've probably already read :) </div>
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<div><br></div><div>Alicia</div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Catarina Mota <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:catarinamfmota@gmail.com" target="_blank">catarinamfmota@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>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?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Catarina</div></div>
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