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Right To Repair Advocates Are Hosting YouTube Town Halls To Show You How To Get Involved In the Movement (vice.com)
iFixit, a company that advocates for the right for users to repair their own devices, is hosting live town halls on YouTube to help get new people involved in the movement. "We're going to do them every two weeks while the legislative season is in full swing," Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, told Motherboard in an email. Motherboard reports: The first town hall aired on Thursday, and featured prominent right to repair leaders like Repair.org's Gay Gordon-Byrne and US PIRG's Nathan Proctor. The broadcast covered topics such as the benefits of right to repair to consumers and the environment, and gave out information on how to talk to legislators about right to repair laws. Thanks to the right to repair movement's efforts, 15 states have introduced right to repair legislation in 2019 so far. Repair.org and iFixit's livestream gives people in those states information to help push their legislators to vote for bills protecting the people's right to repair. People living in states where legislation isn't yet being considered can learn all about how to kickstart their own local movements.
Getting involved in the push for right to repair legislation is as simple as watching a recording of the first town hall broadcast. From there, you can then head over to Repair.org's advocacy page, where, you can navigate to a direct link for each state that will tell you where right to repair legislation stands in your community, who your legislators are, and how to get in contact with them. If folks across America agitate for change, we can enjoy a future where people can freely repair their own devices.
Getting involved in the push for right to repair legislation is as simple as watching a recording of the first town hall broadcast. From there, you can then head over to Repair.org's advocacy page, where, you can navigate to a direct link for each state that will tell you where right to repair legislation stands in your community, who your legislators are, and how to get in contact with them. If folks across America agitate for change, we can enjoy a future where people can freely repair their own devices.
Right to repair is like free speech. Completely useless.
Sure you have it in theory, but when you try to cash it in you can't.
...not repair? Is that a thing or are we just going to be righteously indignant about repair?
Automakers dealerships have a machine that reads the cars' repair codes. Not you local repair shop.
This also applies to John Deere farm equipment, down time on $300,000 machine that must work to bring in the harvest, can not be repaired in the field.
But once again Tesla will be given a pass.
Apple has sold a billion iphones in total and not having a replaceable battery means 1Bx4oz = 125,000 tons of e-waste destined for landfill (be decomposed in about 100,000 years).
and thats just a single product, add up all their other devices and that number gets a lot bigger, just for a single company.
clearly unsustainable, now add in Samsung, LG, Phillips, and all the other Chinese tech and we are looking at a million tons of waste, all because they couldnt be repaired.
RTR should be mandatory with massive penalties if a device cannot be repaired, and yet they ban straws, ban unrepairable electronic goods period.
They are trying to avoid situations like this:
'Electronics companies use proprietary partsâ"as in the case of of Appleâ(TM)s iPhone Xâ"licensing agreements, and software protections to discourage DIY repairs and make fixes expensive for even authorized repair shops. In some cases, the government gets involved. Major tech companies like Apple inform US Customs and Border Protection about which âoegray marketâ partsâ"often used in repairs by professionalsâ"to be on the lookout for.'
Wandering what's happening in European Union, if it' s something to present this abuses from hi-tech corporations
... to prevent ...
of course if you dont have a controlling interest then you dont have a right but an administrative body will do a service of beneficial privilege escalation to maintane or sustain your interests under Federal Administrative Procedures Act. Therefore under FAPA you cant argue your car having a Right of Way or Rightbto Public Vehicular Travel if you are in service under privileged driving in the vehicle code and same for other so-called rights people belch about but never finance or assert.
I've been repairing my 1960s Tektronix scopes and accessories since like, forever, and all my Commodore crap too.
Nothing new here.
Last month the battery started to crap out, now takes 5-8 hours to charge, but 90 minutes to drain. Took it to a repair shop yesterday, for the price they quoted I can buy a new one for another $20.
Last 2 cellphones I bought were because the existing batteries died.
I'd love to see a law that requires electronics to have an easily replaced battery. Spending $160 for a new device, as opposed to $30 for a battery, is stuck on stupid.
I tried to repair my pants a few times but then I realized they had so many worn out holes that they no longer existed
gold fringe is an administrative mode of the executive branch. by principal & agent doctrine it is a-ok.
You will pay a fee and rent the use of their equipment.
you have the right to repair your advocate
All the law needs to do is to require that if a manufacturer of a product (whether that be a combine harvester, a chest freezer, a cellphone or a commercial airliner) provides parts, tools, diagnostic equipment, service manuals, service updates, repair guides, software or anything else to manufacturer repair shops or authorized service centres they have to provide those same items to anyone else who wants to run a repair shop or repair items.
No exemptions, no restrictions, no "sorry you can't buy that unless you have a license to act as a motor vehicle repair shop" or other crap and no charging huge prices for things (with an appropriate government agency given powers to act if a manufacturer is charging prices above what is reasonable)
Your natural, God-given rights are inalienable. The legal system can be just and protect them with legal rights or it can be a legal injustice system like in America. That's the difference between a free country ( as in freedom not beer) and a fascist corporate state where you have to get through TSA checkpoints just to move around freely.
And Obama did NOTHING about it, so now heil Hitlary you libtards. Never forget Ferguson or that 9-11 was an inside job. ae911truth dot org
Car makers and other hardware producers are already forced by law in many countries to provide replacements parts to anybody, sometimes for 1 or 2 decades and they have to allow 3rd party companies to fabricate them as well.
That should be a general law.
PS. I'm looking at you, Apple.
did you forget you can choose who gets your money?
for example, bad restaurant service? get up if you wait for more than 10 minutes for a menu.
the sales person trying to upsale/rip you off? leave
cell phone manufacturer trying battery tricks? dont buy their stuff.
but no, lets cry and tell the world about it. guess you forgot how money works....
A town hall implies elected government officials with the power to institute change are present to hear citizen arguments. From what I can tell, only advocates for the right to repair were present (nothing against them, I'm one of them), no elected officials. That makes this a seminar or presentation, not a town hall.
Even if elected officials had been present, there's a saying about feedback to Congresscritters. That one hand-written letter is worth a hundred printed form letters. A printed form letter is worth a hundred voicemails. A voicemail is worth a hundred emails. And an email is worth a hundred clicks on a website poll. That is, the amount of effort put into relaying the message matters. Elected officials use the effort needed to gauge how important the issue is to you. If you can't be bothered to do more than clink on an online poll, it must not be very important to you. If it bugs you enough to compose (or copy/paste) an email, it must be somewhat important to you. If you're concerned enough to make a phone call, it must be important to you. If you're worried enough to print out a letter, put it in an envelope, stamp it, and drop it off in a mailbox, it must be very important to you. And if you're so concerned you'll hand-write that letter (to prove it wasn't a form letter), put it in an envelope, stamp it, and drop it off in a mailbox, it must be extremely important to you.
So even if this had really been an online town hall, attending via video conferencing will never have as much impact as physically attending a real town hall meeting. The ease and convenience so important to younger generations today end up watering down the impact of your statement to government officials. Hundreds of people attending a video conference will only convince a politician that a bunch of people spammed a bunch of forums telling people to attend and play it in the background while they played their XBox. Hundreds of people trying to squeeze into a town hall will convince a politician that this issue is really important to voters.
It's flamebait to talk about avoiding cancer? No. Petrochemicals are flamebait. They actually burn.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Safety regulations?
Depends on products, some are more serviceable then others. I would like to know in advance without having to hire a lawyer what is permissible. Then can make an informed decision on whether I purchase. I like to support products that are serviceable vs beyond economic repair.