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E-Bike Industry Blames Consumers For Fires In Effort To Undermine ‘Right To Repair’ Laws (www.techdirt.com)

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Countless companies and industries enjoy making up scary stories when it comes to justifying their opposition to making it easier to repair your own tech. Apple claims that empowering consumers and bolstering independent repair shops will turn states into “hacker meccas.” The car industry insists that making it easier and cheaper to repair modern cars will be a boon to sexual predators.

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[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

Can you explain your point of view?

Biased as I am, as I live in a country where the right to repair is by default granted, discussion ofwhat someone can or cannot do to what is rightfully theirs is... nonsensical.

Even before Apple allowed for third party repairs, here there were shops replacing iPhone batteries, screens, etc, because we can. We paid for it, that's it.

But the right to repair a vehicle? And the argument against involving children? What sort of reasoning is supporting that claim?

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