this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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Perhaps there should be government controlled licenses for some technologies, like for gun ownership? Although there's probably all sorts of ways that be circumvented. Not sure how best to control this though.
*edit wow thanks, nice to know what sort of community this is. Nothing in the responses so far have told me anything I didn't already know, and I did point out that it would be circumvented. I don't see any other ideas though. Maybe with that sort of negative defeatist response we'll never even try. Fuck it right, let's just watch the world burn. /s
Not really comparable to guns, making it harder to get a physical object is much different from preventing people from downloading software. Even 3d printed guns require equipment and knowledge to make use of the download.