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The Right to Repair... Absolutely Nothing.

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We were on the Verge of Greatness… we were this close.

That Space Nazi from Rogue One

Right to Repair has become a mainstream movement. Bills have been drafted all around the United States with a common goal: being able to fix your things.

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It’s just a shame it all had to go down like this.

Sources:

  • The era of fixing your own phone has nearly arrived, The Verge, 2022 Apr 9
  • Microsoft Funded a Right to Repair Study, and the Results Are Encouraging, ReviewGeek, 2022 May 3
  • The shareholder fight that forced Apple’s hand on repair rights, The Verge, 2021 Nov 17
  • “Promoting Competition in the American Economy”, Presidential Document & Executive Order 14036, 2021 July 9
  • New York state passes first electronics right-to-repair bill, Ars Technica, 2022 June 3
  • New York breaks the right to repair bill as it’s signed into law, The Verge, 2022 Dec 29
  • Gov. Hochul’s approval of Senate Bill 4104-A, Twitter user John Campbell (Gothamist and WNYC reporter), 29 Dec 2022
  • How Apple & Big Tech gutted New York’s right to repair bill, Apple Insider, 2023 Feb 13
  • TechNet’s proposed changes to Digital Fair Repair Act (source below)
    • How Big Tech rewrote the nation’s first cell phone repair law, Grist, 2023 Feb 8

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