About a month ago, I posted about printable AR15 magazines. Now, Make reports that this has caused Thingiverse to reconsider allowing weapons and parts of weapons to exist on the site. More about it here.
I understand their concern - they want the site to remain accessible to schools, and schools will most likely block any website that shows how to create firearms. I don't think it's unreasonable to make those how-tos restricted by age.
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I stopped reading Make, Thingiverse, and Lifehacker a couple of years ago. I got the impression that everything was run by children.
I gave up on Lifehacker for similar reasons, but I like to skim Make for the neat ideas they show from time to time. I've never browsed Thingiverse.
It's not hard at all to simply put those in an age-restricted portion of the site. I'm inclined to think they'll end up just pulling all gun content. I hope I'm wrong.
Yep, they are afraid of guns... they'll pull all gun and knife stuff.
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