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This community usually discusses consumer rights, but nobody is discussing this initiative. Is it maybe cuz Lemmy's majority ain't American?

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[-] BlueBaggy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago

No, I don't wanna be associated with that guy.

[-] xeroxguts@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago

I had never heard of him before. What's his deal?

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Nothing stands out very far regarding the negatives. I could speculate to a few things, though. He's not a Socialist. When the going got tough for him and his business he uprooted and moved out of NYC to Texas. I can't really think of anything else objectionable. I actually like him, though so I may be biased.

For the positives, he's helped drive a lot of the Right to Repair legislation in this country as he's reported a lot of discussions he's had with real legislators. He runs a website for mac product repair as a reference that also operates as a non-profit. He runs a daytime business repairing mac products that employs several other people. Generally he posts a lot to keep people up to date increasingly as an electronics-oriented influencer, but he used to post mac repair videos almost exclusively and he talked about having to navigate Apple's influence on regulating the second-hand market. He has also given platform to a number of other mac & electronic repair people.

To me he seems to talk-the-talk and walk-the-walk when it comes to Right to Repair, but like I said, I might be biased.

[-] BlueBaggy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Overall what he promotes/fights for are good things. But in short what I don't like about him is:

  • he believes to be the morals authority
  • the standards he is advocating for don't apply to him (for example fighting for open source just to release an app which isn't open source)
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