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San Diego County jumped into California’s sprawling ghost gun fight this week, suing a 3-D printing filament manufacturer it says hocks material for homespun firearms in violation of state law.

Working with the Giffords Law Center, the county counsel sued manufacturer Polymaker, alleging the company made a “strategic business choice” to market and sell 3-D printer filament to Californians for the express purpose of building illegal weapons. The polymer filament is sold in spools that feed into 3-D printers, allowing the devices to form designs created by their owners.

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[-] holy_scroller@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 day ago

So polymaker actually choose the individual channels their ads (not about ghost guns) were put on...or was that an algorithm (AdSense)?

[-] evidences@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

I don't remember seeing them do any specific sponsored content, though they may and probably have, but that have a very open affiliate program that every 3d printer youtuber I've seen is in. They also give out codes for streaming channels to give away filament.

All this I'm saying is I don't think they're "choosing" these channels but I doubt they care what the content in on any channel.

they have a specific partnership with a 3D2A channel The 3D Print General off the top of my head

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