alt Hacker NewsSome of these bills are written in such a way that they would apply to CNC manufacturing, such that they could even make building your own machine from scratch illegal. They are terribly oppressive and short-sighted.
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themafia • yesterday at 9:18 PM
> oppressive and short-sighted.
Which usually means "we're willing to ignore short term damage to get long term results for our political patrons."
“Short-sighted” implies that those in favour of this would see it as a bad thing, when in fact, that’s likely the real objective. This is just another shot in the war on ownership.