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I've come to the conclusion recently that I've not done a good enough job of talking about the 3D printed gun issue. I don't think anyone has really. There are too many smart, open-minded people who are like "yeah but these files are dangerous so how can u not want 2 delete them?
"Ok, so you convinced me that bad people cannot just print guns. Still, this stuff is bad so why should it not get deleted? Why should we not delete dangerous files and content from the 5 computers we all share?"

I've failed to give a good answer to this.
The problem is structural. The case for censoring these files can be summed up quickly & grasped by a five-year-old. The case against censoring them is complicated & requires specific knowledge in multiple domains.
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The JS community is sadly a hotbed of this kind of project-destroying crusaderism. There's some of this in the Ruby world, as well, but it's not as widespread.
I have no doubt that "here is a list of evil people/companies that are not allowed to use our software" will catch on as a licensing thing. 🙄 I look forward to being formally prohibited from using a wide range of things on firearm-related projects.
In the present culture war, it seems that everything that can be weaponized will be weaponized. The only thing that has yet to be weaponized are literal weapons, but y'know give it a minute. 🤦‍♂️
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He’s right but this is only half of it. Other half is they’ll appropriate left’s argument (made re: Russia) that social media manipulation is an attack on democracy, and recast ham-fisted moderation as RU-style attacks that delegitimize election results they don’t like.
This angle will be effective because it’s not entirely wrong, and we’ll all be arguing over the degree to which it’s an exaggeration.
If Trump were gone from office tomorrow, the battle over Russiagate would still be less than half over. We’re going to be fighting over what level of algo-and moderation-driven platform bias casts a cloud over election results for years.
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I'm having deja vu with this 3D printed gun censorship stuff. I had my hair on fire about electronic voting in 2006, & for a decade people were like "you're freaking out about a bogeyman." The easy, instant mass blocking of urls & articles about urls & CAD files feels similar.
It's like looking at a system and saying, "you don't understand what you've built, here. You haven't grokked what its failure mode is, because you think it's an electronic version of this old thing but really it's a whole new thing."
Whatever with these gun CAD files, man. The problem is in the way all the parts are working together, and what this particular degenerate case says about the whole -- the settlement & the AG push & the subsequent shockingly effective & rapid censorship....
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Good morning! The Last Jedi novelization comes out in PB Tuesday. I'll offer some thoughts from the writing process in roughly chronological order. Hopefully it will be of some interest/answer some of the Qs folks had. (For which thank you.) amzn.to/2zrkytY
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A thought that's been brewing since I preached on the Parable of the Wedding Banquet last Sunday: A false understanding of this parable can reinforce a false understanding of the church.
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It’s the 8th day of the school year & I just received a call from my daughters high school informing me they arrested a child with a loaded 9mm gun on campus this morning. I am now standing in my kitchen sobbing.

I should not have to live like this.
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Children, actual children, should not have access to guns!

This is why I am involved with @MomsDemand. I am sick of this kind of bullshit!
This should not be normal!

I’ll continue to do this work for the safety & well being of my family & children and the safety & well being of everybody else’s family & children.

Even if you’re on the other side of the gun issue, I don’t want you to live like this either! #Enough
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