Right to Repair Laws Have Now Been Introduced in All 50 US States
With a new bill in Wisconsin, Right to Repair laws have now been introduced in all 50 US states!
This is click baity. Have a look at some of the laws:
Things like wheelchairs, farm equipment, and cars. Very narrow.
I’m not the least bit impressed and hope these examples are not used as an excuse to encumber the badly needed progress to fix things that matter apart from wheelchairs and veg. farm equipment.
It's hard not to be pessimistic here and personally I'm a huge fan of the movement, but won't right to repair be considered a woke thing under the current administration?
it's very easy to frame it as "farmers should be able to repair their own equipment" or "car owners should be able to fiddle with their cars"
The gays want to force you to work in sweatshops to repair their phones!
I mean yeah, but that's irrelevant to state law. Of course the fear that the federal government intervenes against states trying to implement it exists, but the federal government's position is too precarious for them to do such a stunt.
I'm not American but the right to repair is a socialist/communist thing that empowers poor people, and bothers companies that now have to follow more regulations. I don't understand how it was accepted. But we're living in weird times so...
You mean the insidious specter of socialism, with its tentacles of totalitarian control reaching deep into every aspect of private life. The one that threatens to strangle individual initiative beneath its crushing weight of collectivist dogma, while its shadowy operatives who side with communism secretly manipulate the levers of power from within, waiting for the perfect moment to strike and impose their godless Marxist utopia upon our great devices. /s
Good, surprised trump administration didn't block this one
IMO, Trump is more of a right to repair motivator because all the trade wars will make consumerism less attractive and thus inspire repair.
I mean, it would be an accident on Trump’s part and he will want to intervene to thwart r2r. But consider as well that the GOP is theoretically all about shifting power to the states and reducing federal power. This will be a source of cognitive dissonance for the retarded tyrant.