Facebook Takes Their Anti-Gun Stance to a Whole New Level With THIS Policy Change
The issue of 3-D printed guns has been controversial over the last few weeks. Court proceedings and lawsuits have been nonstop and it’s all to answer one question: should 3-D printed guns and their data be treated as a firearm or intellectual property.
Facebook has now decided to weigh in on that debate. The social media giant is now removing content that details how an individual can develop a 3-D printed gun, Reuters reported.
“Sharing instructions on how to manufacture firearms using 3D printers or CNC milling machines is not allowed under our Community Standards. In line with our policies, we are removing this content from Facebook,” a company spokesperson told CNN in a statement.
The sudden change means that if a person wants to share blueprints with friends and family and the link is posted to the social media website, it will not be accessible.
Gun rights activists believe this is Facebook’s attempt at shutting down CodeIsFreeSpeech.com, which was started by a coalition of pro-gun groups — consisting of the Firearms Policy Coalition, Firearms Policy Foundation, The Calguns Foundation and the California Coalition of Federal Firearms Licensees — where they posted the same exact blueprints Defense Distributed planned on posting beginning Aug. 1.
The attempted censorship of a website run by a coalition of gun rights groups is far more aggressive than anything we've seen with Alex Jones. Amazon took down their hosting. Facebook has blocked any post with a link to the site in it. https://t.co/UdlL8NmZE7
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) August 9, 2018
Here's what happens if you try to share https://t.co/Wf1g4pxhld on Facebook. Facebook told me they are removing all content associated with the site from their platform. pic.twitter.com/mIYXXmzvWG
— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) August 9, 2018
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