Your human rights are increasingly tied to your access to computing. Demand Right to Repair. Your ability to own, modify, and repair your devices is too important to trust to corporations that don't have your best interests in mind.https://twitter.com/ThE_JacO/status/1394272226715836419 …
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Replying to @cmuratori
I voided the warranty on an Apple keyboard because I took a key cap off that kept getting stuck. I just needed a new cap but they quoted me more than the cost of a new keyboard to repair. Probably the last apple product I’ll ever buy.
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Replying to @hazeycode
It definitely isn't a "right" in my opinion, but unfortunately I don't get to name things :) If it had been my choice, I would have called it "Service Neutrality", because it is exactly analogous to "Net Neutrality". It's Net Neutrality for parts and labor.
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Replying to @cmuratori @hazeycode
In other words, it is an economic law you want from your sovereign that prevents competition on restrictive grounds. It's an anti-trust law, not a civil rights law (although much like anti-trust, your civil rights may _depend_ on such laws).
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Completely incorrect, and historically ignorant. Without anti-trust laws, vendors simply won't sell you the parts - they collude and the only source for anything for a Mac is marked up dramatically. Go read Eastman Kodak.
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What I'm not getting is how you would deal with the monopoly powers in general. Are you saying that Bell Telephone, for example, would not have become a monopoly in the first place without copyright and patent, I guess?
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Replying to @cmuratori @hazeycode
It just seems very unlikely that you wouldn't get natural monopolies, regardless of IP law, and you have to have a plan to deal with that at some point. I mean a government is just the winner of a no-laws monopoly fight in a region, right :)
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If you don't believe in natural monopolies, what is a government, then? A government is the natural monopoly of a region, right. A law is just the monopolist saying what happens, because they own the area.
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