Thursday, March 21, 2019
Corporations Are Co-Opting Right-to-Repair
WIRED: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
As an advocate, organizer, and campaigner for preschool access, tax fairness, plastic pollution and other causes for the last 14 years, I’ve heard this saying many times. You tell it to your volunteers when it looks like your movement has hit a wall or when it looks like your opposition has the upper hand, and you want to show your teammates that many people have faced obstacles before, and overcome them.
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This is a huge frustration of mine. It seems obvious that if you own something, you should be able to modify or repair it any way you see fit. It is not like we are babysitters, temporary stewards of things that other people have the rights to make decisions about. We own these objects, we paid a premium for them, and it is absurd that manufacturers will not allow us to make our own decisions about them. Obviously no one wants to accidentally ruin something by trying to fix it, but that decision should be the consumer’s to make. The current state of things, that the Right to Repair movement is trying to disrupt, feels like monopoly. It feels like it goes against the founding principles of the United States. Of course, as the article nods at, these corporations have enough money to buy legislation and make up their own truths, so disrupting the status quo is going to be a long, hard slog.
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