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Big Tech Goes All In to Thwart Right to Repair Initiatives

By Jerri-Lynn Scofield, who has worked as a securities lawyer and a derivatives trader. She is currently writing a book about textile artisans. Bloomberg today published an article, Microsoft and Apple Wage War on Gadget Right-to-Repair Laws, which delved into the details of how big Tech – Microsoft, Google, Apple – thwart right to repair initiatives. There’s considerable support among the public for right to repair initiatives. Not only could such measures save consumers considerable sums of money, they might also alleviate shortages – of laptops for schools, as just one example (see Waste Watch: Right to Repair as Remedy for School Computer Shortage?)

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Waste Watch: Europeans Get Right to Repair for Some Consumer Electrical Goods, While Jean Deere Reneges on Promise to U S Farmers to Make Diagnostic Software Freely Available

Waste Watch: Europeans Get Right to Repair for Some Consumer Electrical Goods, While Jean Deere Reneges on Promise to U S Farmers to Make Diagnostic Software Freely Available
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Will 2021 Be the Year for the Right to Repair?

Will 2021 prove to be the year that several states finally adopt a right to repair? Last year witnessed monumental progress for right to repair, including the expansion of an existing Massachusetts law that requires car makers to provide independent mechanics access to the same diagnostic tools used in dealerships. A federal right to repair law was also considered for the first time in US history. 2021 is expected to take the effort to an entirely new level. This 14 number understates state interest. In 2019, 20 states mulled such initiatives – to no avail (see this 2019 post, which included a map of states then considering adopting some form of a digital right to repair, Nebraska Farmers Lead on Right to Repair). And according to Food Tank, nearly three dozen states have considered right to repair legislation, in Farmers Fight For Right To Repair Their Own Equipment.

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