• cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world
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    secrecy orders have been imposed not only on inventions affecting military defense but also on those alleged to threaten economic stability, with critics noting that many such restrictions rest on speculative or unproven harms.

    But also

    The law applies broadly to all inventions in the United States for which a patent is filed or granted (35 U.S.C. § 181).

    So if you really do have a society changing invention - one that could upset this capitalist or neoliberal world order - it is your duty to publically release it and not patent it

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      I suspect the “threatens economic stability” is stuff like printers that can produce dollars and the type of paper/thread/plastic material that makes up modern currency. I think people are looking for a conspiracy here when it’s just a logical choice. Some things people shouldn’t have a playbook on how to create.

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        The US government fought encryption beyond the millenium. Pretty much still is as it gains backdoors everywhere.

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      They’ll suppress it unless they can make money off it like crypto or “AI”.

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        Bitcoin was publicly released with full code and no pre-mining. It could not be patented for this reason.

        The original creator is still unknown and has never moved their coins.

        This strategy is the way.

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          Yo.
          Thanks for curing me of my ignorance, i had no idea. I’m going to have to read more about this! I always thought crypto was cool in theory, unfortunate the state of its practice.

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            I’m kind of on the same page as you, as a concept it’s really cool but all the hype and techbros around it are a huge turn off.

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      In which case some rich cunt will patent it and nuke the internet of its details

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        Tough to get a valid patent when the prior works were published publicly before you ever applied for it…

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        Good luck scrubbing anything off the internet with even a little social momentum. If people think its good enough to share, then it’s never fully getting scrubbed.

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          Do you think there would be significant momentum behind someone posting what amounts to detailed patenting information?

          Presumably someone without a following that absolutely no one that runs any of the social momentum sites would want someone else to have?

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          Sure its not, I am delghted for you that you can still see the fappening nudes but if you think for a second that US hosting companies will be allowed to host content that has been flagged under this procedure you ae dreaming.

          Its not conspiritorial to recognise things can be made very difficuly to find on the public facing web.

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          Worst kind of poster, sees a ratioed a comment jumps in for an easy jab. If I’m wrong so be it but you added less than anyone to this thread. You could have corrected me but nothing was easier.

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            It’s your burden to show when things like that happened. You just said a vague sentence while acting like you’re adding to the conversation.

            You weren’t.