It looks like the FTC folks of Biden are set to engage in a war against repair monopolies such as Apple and John Deere that prohibit anyone other than their approved repair agents from conducting the mostly costly repairs.
There has long been a movement out there called “The Right to Repair,” which has been sometimes successfully and sometimes not successfully, get states to pass laws that protect the right to repair your own property, the underlying extension of the assumed right to property this nation state has somewhat assumed to be the limits of its own, and anyone else’s power.
To see a Biden-led FTC pushing for the defense of the individual against the powerful is more than surprising to me, but, nonethless, I am extremely relieved to see some concept of individual liberty is useful for the Biden group to hold on to.
Never look a gift horse in the mouth is how the saying goes, but I say never look a gift horse in the mouth until you’ve receieved the gift, then look at that mouth all up and down to figure out what kind of gift you actually got.
To that end, we’ll be analyzing the potential interest that such a move serves the DNC and their front face, Team Biden. Still, we’ll take the gift, but we’re still checking out that mouth.
The FTC votes unanimously to enforce right to repair.
From www.reddit.com
2021-07-22 10:59:18
/u/Sumit316
Excerpt:
While unlawful repair restrictions have generally not been an enforcement priority for the
Commission for a number of years,4 the Commission has determined that it will devote more
enforcement resources to combat these practices.5 Accordingly, the Commission will now
prioritize investigations into unlawful repair restrictions under relevant statutes such as the
Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act6 and Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act.
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