Talk:Defense Distributed/Archive 1

Archive 1

Normative ethics

Hmm disseminating information regarding how to make guns...how is that different to giving out information on how to break into people's homes, hack computers or make crystal meth? From Wikipedia's POV policy how is this any different? 86.160.194.59 (talk) 15:50, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

Making guns isn't illegal? Beyond that , this article doesn't give out any information, it is merely discussing a company that does. There are many articles about hackers, robbers, and drug manufacturers on wikipedia, so I'm not sure what your point is. Gaijin42 (talk) 18:15, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Agree with Gaijin42. WP:Wikipedia is not censored. As long as this organization is notable (and it is, very clearly so, in recent weeks) and the information in the article is verifiable, then this article describing the entity is just fine. The world has lots of stuff in it; all of us don't like some of it. But it may all be described on Wikipedia. Cheers. N2e (talk) 21:16, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia's POV policy is to have no POV. Describing the goals of an organization without labelling them as right or wrong is the only way to follow this. Besides, with two of the types of information you mention (breaking into homes and black hat hacking) it is absolutely essential that they be made public. How do you plug security vulnerabilities if you don't know what they are? Connor Behan (talk) 22:13, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Additional information at sisterlinks

Please see commons:Category:Defense Distributed.

Interesting info including:

1. File:3-D Printing Technology of Firearms - ATF.pdf
2. File:Letter-from-Department-of-State-to-Defense-Distributed.pdf

— Cirt (talk) 06:27, 10 May 2013 (UTC)