Friday
Moderator
I’m not very surprised by the ruling (which is limited solely to publishing blueprints, and is in response to violating export laws, rather than arms sales)... although suspect the limitation on .50 and up will be overturned sooner rather than later... and would have to disagree that it’s StreetMarch level.
It’s pretty analogous to instructions of how to make bombs, or culture microbes, or manufacture drugs, or refine uranium being allowed to be published in books or online. No matter how correct or incorrect the information itself is. from the deeply flawed anarchists cookbook to university textbooks.
We have exceptionally long precedent in this country in not censoring potentially dangerous information.
The information itself is legal. The actions contained therein are often not. Publishing a blueprint? No problem. Using the blueprint? Many layers of problems. Whether it’s a garage or a gun, there are permitting processes to go through, and penalties to be paid (fines to imprisonment) if requirements aren’t met.
It’s pretty analogous to instructions of how to make bombs, or culture microbes, or manufacture drugs, or refine uranium being allowed to be published in books or online. No matter how correct or incorrect the information itself is. from the deeply flawed anarchists cookbook to university textbooks.
We have exceptionally long precedent in this country in not censoring potentially dangerous information.
The information itself is legal. The actions contained therein are often not. Publishing a blueprint? No problem. Using the blueprint? Many layers of problems. Whether it’s a garage or a gun, there are permitting processes to go through, and penalties to be paid (fines to imprisonment) if requirements aren’t met.
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