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A 3d blueprint file could be considered free speech as well, and yet it was just declared illegal. Can you explain that?
by Zoepfli 13y ago
A 3d blueprint file could be considered free speech as well, and yet it was just declared illegal. Can you explain that?
- mpyne 13y agoThe company agreed not to release it when they were certified to do firearms design, from what I can tell from the rest of the comments. The government is still stupid for causing the Streisand effect but if the company agreed to be bound and then broke those terms that is on them. There are, of course, other legally-granted limits to free speech (e.g. PII, classified material, customer financial passwords, etc.) that I would like to not have to itemize just because people on HN like to beat dead horses, but merely mentioning the existance of a magnet hash seems pretty unambiguous IMO.
- Pinckney 13y agoI was under the impression that ITAR was just as applicable to individuals as to organizations. Is this not the case?
- mpyne 13y agoAFAIK yes, which is why I mentioned that there are categories of information not legally protected by the concept of free speech, and how Phil Zimmerman got around that.