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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.
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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/
