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Reminder: Join us in a few minutes for a discussion about the #RighttoRepair and follow our live tweets here.https://twitter.com/openmarkets/status/1252595014821187586 .@nProctor: We are here because people are losing their ability to
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
In 2012, Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly passed (87%!) an automotive #RightToRepair ballot initiative, but in the years since, car-makers have brutally sabotaged it, prompting another ballot initiative that'll be before voters
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Nathan Proctor
nProctor
A thread on warranties and #RightToRepair Warranties are important -- they protect consumers and push manufacturers to make more durable, repairable products. But our warranties are wearing thing. 1/ A
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Daniel Hanley
danielahanley
Along with my colleagues @clairekelloway and @sandeepvaheesan, I am delighted to announce the release of the latest report from @openmarkets #RightToRepair #antitrusthttps://openmarketsinstitute.org/reports/fixing-america-breaking-manufacturers-after
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Medtech giant Medtronic is quite a piece of work. The company started as a Minneapolis repair shop before growing to be one of the world's largest, most profitable - and
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Caveat emptor! We've got a couple of hair/beard trimmers around the house that have turned out to be pretty useful during the lockdown for home haircuts. They started to get
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
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
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
#RightToRepair has never been more urgent. There's a reason farmers have been on the front lines of R2R: they have pressing deadlines ("make hay while the sun shines") and are
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💾WysiWyg Protogen📡
WysWyg_Protogen
Have you thought about the future? Have you thought about what things may be like in 20 years? I have, and there's a BIG determiner that's currently being fought out
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Kevin Bhasi
kbhasi
#stillinitsprimeday #RightToRepair #RepairDayTime to show off some e-readers I've repaired a while back!more details in thread, in the order of which I repaired them. 1. Kindle 7th gen Paperwhite (top
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
As far back as 2015, the agribusiness monopolist @JohnDeere was taking steps to ban farmers from fixing their own tractors, arguing that copyright law made trafficking in tools to effect
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
After more than a year of investigations, House Dems have produced a 450-page report on market concentration in the tech industry, with a slate of findings that are obvious and
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