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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/
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/
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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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/
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.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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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/
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.
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If you don't have time to read the 56-page report, check out @Ifixit's cheat-sheet, which highlights the salient points, namely:
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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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* 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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