The Right to Repair... Absolutely Nothing.
Tech Tho(ugh)ts
English - June 16, 2023 22:00 - 14 minutes - 18.5 MBTechnology Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
(S04-S05 Interlude) Special 1
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.
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Opening Music: Dark Synthwave by MOKKA
We were on the Verge of Greatness… we were this close.
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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.
…
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
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
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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Opening Music: Dark Synthwave by MOKKA