On Friday, May 10, 2013 4:40:25 AM UTC-4, GOP_Decline_and_Fall wrote:
State Department orders firm to remove 3D-printed guns web blueprints



Defense Distributed tweeted on Thursday that 'Liberator' project had

'gone dark' at the request of government officials



http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...ate-department



Betabeat posted a copy of the letter reportedly sent by the Department

of State to Wilson. The department said the blueprints had to be taken

offline because they may contain data regulated by the State

Department. The department said it would review the files.



"I immediately complied and I've taken down the files," Wilson told

Betabeat. "But this is a much bigger deal than guns. It has

implications for the freedom of the web."



Wilson unsuccessfully applied for a federal firearms license from the

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and has said he wants to

create the gun legally.



On Sunday, New York senator Charles Schumer said that legislation

should be created to prevent people from making 3D printed guns.

You do know the only reason the Dept o'State did this was because it might be export-restricted data under ITAR, right? No restriction on the company to release the information only to US citizens if they chose to do so.

You think data can be controlled. Laugh, laugh, laugh...

They did that to some helicopter manuals that I had on
liberatedmanuals.com. Really stupid, considering that I downloaded
them from a Thailand website.

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On 2013-05-10, wrote:
On Friday, May 10, 2013 4:40:25 AM UTC-4, GOP_Decline_and_Fall wrote:
State Department orders firm to remove 3D-printed guns web blueprints



Defense Distributed tweeted on Thursday that 'Liberator' project had

'gone dark' at the request of government officials



http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...ate-department



Betabeat posted a copy of the letter reportedly sent by the Department

of State to Wilson. The department said the blueprints had to be taken

offline because they may contain data regulated by the State

Department. The department said it would review the files.



"I immediately complied and I've taken down the files," Wilson told

Betabeat. "But this is a much bigger deal than guns. It has

implications for the freedom of the web."



Wilson unsuccessfully applied for a federal firearms license from the

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and has said he wants to

create the gun legally.



On Sunday, New York senator Charles Schumer said that legislation

should be created to prevent people from making 3D printed guns.

You do know the only reason the Dept o'State did this was because it might be export-restricted data under ITAR, right? No restriction on the company to release the information only to US citizens if they chose to do so.

You think data can be controlled. Laugh, laugh, laugh...