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Your 3D Printer Is Now a Threat to the Military-Industrial Complex (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Yuritopiaposadism@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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How a $10 part and some 3D printing filament just exposed a $5,644 fraud — and why the people profiting from it are quietly rewriting the laws to make sure it never happens again.

A Marine Lance Corporal figured out how to replace a $5,644 military antenna part for ten dollars using a 3D printer. The Marine Corps saved $600,000. Within months, the lobbying organizations representing Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman killed Military Right to Repair in Congress — in a closed door meeting, no cameras, no public vote.

That's not a coincidence.

This video connects the dots between the death of Military Right to Repair, the wave of 3D printer control legislation moving through California, Washington, and New York right now, and the real reason micro-manufacturing in the hands of normal people is being legislated out of existence.

It was never about firearms. It was always about who controls manufacturing — and what happens when you don't need them anymore.

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[–] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'd need more explanation of this because H Bush's whole shtick was setting up the military to be privatized. They didn't just ask for it, they moved heaven and Earth to make it so. It was the project of projects to privatize everything.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but if you're right you'll be at the intersection of a massive contradiction.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

They get whatever budget they ask for