Right to Repair

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

I Fix It Repair Manifesto

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Summary video by Marques Brownlee

Great channel covering and advocating right to repair, Lewis Rossman

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Right to Repair Laws Have Now Been Introduced in All 50 US States (www.ifixit.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm not American but the right to repair is a socialist/communist thing that empowers poor people, and bothers companies that now have to follow more regulations. I don't understand how it was accepted. But we're living in weird times so...

[–] Substance_P 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You mean the insidious specter of socialism, with its tentacles of totalitarian control reaching deep into every aspect of private life. The one that threatens to strangle individual initiative beneath its crushing weight of collectivist dogma, while its shadowy operatives who side with communism secretly manipulate the levers of power from within, waiting for the perfect moment to strike and impose their godless Marxist utopia upon our great devices. /s