California Becomes 18th State To Consider Right To Repair Legislation (vice.com)

Jason Koebler shares a report from Motherboard: The right to repair battle has come to Silicon Valley's home state: Wednesday, a state assembly member announced that California would become the 18th state in the country to consider legislation that would make it easier to repair your electronics. "The Right to Repair Act will provide consumers with the freedom to have their electronic products and appliances fixed by a repair shop or service provider of their choice, a practice that was taken for granted a generation ago but is now becoming increasingly rare in a world of planned obsolescence," Susan Talamantes Engman, a Democrat from Stockton who introduced the bill, said in a statement. The announcement had been rumored for about a week but became official Wednesday. The bill would require electronics manufacturers to make repair guides and repair parts available to the public and independent repair professionals and would also would make diagnostic software and tools that are available to authorized and first-party repair technicians available to independent companies.

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can they repair their state first?

[Anonymous Coward]

seriously they live in a state that is fucked up beyond belief, try repairing that first imo

Re:can they repair their state first?

[BlueStrat]

Low taxes and a healthy FU to the gov't works best.

I'd tell you to enjoy Kentucky, but I see that they just outlawed child brides. More big government overreach, amirite? Maybe Alabama will be more to your liking.

Come now, that's not fair. People in different regions of this huge nation are...different. Doesn't make them bad. Honestly, the overwhelming majority of people in the US agree on basic principles we simply disagree on what & how to do or not do in our going about exercising and upholding them.

Don't allow demographic/ethnic/racial/religious/party group identities lead you to believe in absolutes and generalities when it comes to discussing issues with people you may not generally agree with politically. That goes for all sides. If roughly half the population is "the Enemy", where does that leave us? Camps? Pogroms?

You and I are generally far apart politically, yet I'm here to say I agree with and support this proposed Act by the Democrats in California and hope similar legislation is passed in other States.

Don't worry too much about politics as politics is fleeting and mostly just a show for the masses like professional wrestling or the ancient Roman Circuses.

It's principles that really count, the good news being that most of us share far, far more principles than we differ on.

Strat

Re:can they repair their state first?

[BlueStrat]

Your statement would be more convincing if your signature line didn't accuse all liberals of wanting a police state.

This needs to be addressed first.

My sig refers to ideas and ideology, not people. That's a large part of why there's such a disconnect. Nazis of the 19030s/40s are bad, but the German people are and were not bad, it's the Nazi ideas that are bad. Calling those ideas out as bad is not saying the German people are bad. Same thing here. I'm criticizing a set of ideas, not people.

We need to be able to discuss ideas calmly and logically or there is no hope of maintaining a stable nation.

Come now, that's not fair. People in different regions of this huge nation are...different.

That's true. Some regions like to marry 13 year-olds and some vote Democratic.

And in California men marry men and women marry women which is just as strange to them. Again, you attack some mythical group that somehow all believe in lockstep when that's not true of either Left- or Right-leaning people in the US, and somehow also believe your ideas are superior by default. That just works to stop people listening to what those who may disagree are actually saying. It doesn't help solve anything and only makes things worse.

Besides, that's not really fair as few places still have laws allowing marriage that young, and many are old laws left over from as far back as the Reconstruction era. The States you referenced were also States for many decades prior to many of the more liberal Western States and so those much more recent States started out with more-current laws and customs.

Can't we find things, like this proposed Act where we share common ground, that we can come together on and stop demonizing each other on and trying to "win" by any means, even destroying innocent people's lives? It's either that or eventually we end up in a place where there are internment camps and mass graves.

Strat

Batteries

[nightfire-unique]

Please, please, please make it illegal to manufacture or offer for sale any device into which a battery has been glued.

Single issue vote from me. e-waste ain't no laughin' matter, yo.