Right to repair your stuff
Thanks Biden.
If Republicans win the White House, they will install another pro-business, anti-consumer head of the EPA (and other agencies, of course) which will undo any Right-2-Repair progress we have made in recent years.
TL;DW:
- Why is the EPA of all government orgs involved in this? A: Because the claim by John Deere was that you can’t repair your own shit due to “emissions concerns.”
- Okay so what did the EPA do? A: Read this article which is what he reads out loud in the video
- Will this actually do anything? A: Shrug emoji
FYI emojis work fine 🤷♀️
yea ik but i meant this one when u can’t get via \shrug like u can in dc
¯\(ツ)/¯`
This will do nothing. It does not represent a change in law. The EPA is just rebutting the industry argument that new legislation that might require manufacturers to release their diagnostic tools could run afoul of existing EPA policy.
The letter clarifies that the agency interpretation of the statute is that it does not prohibit owner repairs in any way, except that owners of course can ot defeat any emissions mechanism.
It’s the right policy position. I hope there is some testing and enforcement for some of that giant farm equipment.
Bro create a community for right to repair. This guy is an absolute legend
There’s a kinda inactive one here: !righttorepair@lemmy.fmhy.ml. I wonder if it went down with the .ml thing.
Yeah, looks like lemmy.fmhy.ml is down now due to the Mali government. Maybe I can try and make new community? https://sh.itjust.works/post/1484592
