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Senators ask Facebook, Twitter, Google to block 3D-printed gun blueprints
- DanAndersen 8y agoIf Congress makes laws banning distribution of firearm blueprints, it's considered a 1A/2A violation (or at least legally dubious). If social media companies ban distribution of firearm blueprints on their sites, it's not considered a violation ("they're private platforms!"). If members of Congress, who hold power to threaten regulation of social media companies, tell social media companies to ban it for them...
- salawat 8y agoThose that would dominate first seek to disarm those they would control. "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote." -Benjamin Franklin Make no mistake. The period during which our government was a tool of liberty preservation seems to be long past. I believe we may be well down the slippery slope to despotism Franklin feared so much. I pray I am wrong.