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You know the joke.

Office manager: "$75 just to kick the photocopier?"

Photocopier technician: "No, it's $5 to kick the photocopier and $70 to know where to kick it." 1/ A photocopier in an office ...
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The trustbusters in the Biden administration know *precisely* where to kick the photocopier, and they're kicking the shit out of it. You *love* to see it. 3/
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This week on my podcast, I read my @Medium column, "Apple's Cement Overshoes," about the cynical fuckery of Apple's sabotage of #RightToRepair, which ensures its devices end up in overseas e-waste landfills rather than being fixed and kept in service.

doctorow.medium.com/apples-cement-… 1/ A polluted, plastic-strewn ocean-bottom; prominent in the fo
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For all the debate around Right to Repair, it's amazing how simple the actual issue is. On the anti- side, you have companies who say that their users are a bunch of idiotic babies who can't be trusted decide who fixes their stuff. 3/
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It's been nearly two years since the @FTC's #NixingTheFix workshop on how corporations have sabotage our #RightToRepair. Finally, the Commission has issued its report, and it's hugely vindicating for R2R advocates.

ftc.gov/system/files/d…

1/ EFF's Right to Repair logo: a green flag with a crossed hamm
If you don't have time to read the 56-page report, check out @Ifixit's cheat-sheet, which highlights the salient points, namely:

ifixit.com/News/50251/ftc…

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* Companies routinely violate federal law by voiding their customers' warranties in retaliation for seeking independent repair

* Anti-repair tactics more heavily harm Black people and communities of color

* The pandemic made independent repair sabotage even more important

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