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Apple, Google & Microsoft Have Teamed up to Block the Right-to-Repair Law
Apple, Google & Microsoft Have Teamed up to Block the Right-to-Repair Law:
Bloomberg today released a report on how companies like Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are working together to put a stop to laws that would make it necessary for companies to provide device schematics, genuine repair parts, and repair manuals to independent repair technicians.
Almost 27 states have considered the laws in 2021 alone, but in more than half of them, the laws have been voted down or dismissed. Many lobbyists and trade groups representing tech companies have fought hard against this law with Apple pointing out that such measures could lead to device damage or consumers harming themselves when attempting to repair their devices.
In Washington, for example, Washington House of Representatives Democrat Mia Gregerson sponsored a Right to Repair measure that was fought by Microsoft, Google, Amazon, along with lobbyists representing Apple. Lobbyists later said that Apple would endorse repair programs at local colleges if the bill was dropped.
Also at Bloomberg and MacRumors.
See also: Leaked Apple Documents Inadvertently Helped the Right-to-Repair Movement
Louis Rossmann Starts a GoFundMe to Get "Right to Repair" Legistation Passed Through a Direct Ballot
Summary Louis Rossmann, electronics repairman and YouTuber, has started a nonprofit and GoFundMe campaign to fight to get right to repair legislation passed through direct ballot initiatives. For years Louis has talked about the importance of right to repair and how it has become more difficult t...
Right to repair series - Louis Rossmann
In this series he specifically explains why we need better right to repair laws.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyM7FxEaShI
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 22 2021, @02:46PM (2 children)
A lot of those same farmers are the same people that vote for politicians promising to lower taxes on corporations and get rid of loopholes. Anybody voting for that deserves what they get as a natural consequence of their actions. I wish people, in general, would pay more attention to the effects of the policies they're supporting, especially when it bites them in the ass.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 22 2021, @05:56PM (1 child)
what does taxes have to do with anything except your government-sucking slave dogma?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 22 2021, @06:46PM
Remove the excessive profit motive and you'd remove the incentive to engage in this kind of behavior. If Apple couldn't have hundreds of billions of dollars just sitting there, they probably wouldn't be so focused on nickling and diming people on repairs. Most of the problems with corporate behavior are the result of a combination of perverse incentives and a lack of regulation telling them they can't do such horrible things.
Similarly, you wouldn't see so many sweatshop produced products if they weren't allowed to keep the profits of utilizing such labor.