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The Tech Industry Has a New Plan to Stop Right to Repair Laws
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this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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So what they're saying here is that it's cheaper for them to drag rtr laws to court everywhere for years than it is for them to make devices repairable. Or, in other terms, planned obsolescence makes them so much money that they can spend billions in lawyer fees and still make a profit.
Not really, a big driving factor behind making devices irreparable is to uphold the illusion of infinite growth.
Yup, or the Apple play which is just walk right around these regulations with some additional tricky bullshit while outwardly 'supporting' RtR. If I was a lawmaker I would be so fucking livid about this circumvention I would come back even harder but I guess I don't know a lot about that process.
Forgot something if you were a lawmaker you probably had so much money from those company that you would not care.
The goal here always been to make it look like they do something usefull not actually do it.
It's supremely disappointing, looking up campaign contributions, how little money is required to influence our politicians.
Yeah at least make the corruption worth it but it's hard to up the price when the guy next to you would take a trip to Delaware to vote the way they want