The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State
The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State
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The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State
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I'm really glad this passed, right when laws are basically becoming meaningless. /s
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When WA secedes along with oregon and cali to get away from the insanity, it'll be real convenient to have a law like this on the books so we can just copy it over. I guess.
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The carve outs were so enormous due to industry lobby it's an embarrassment and crosses the "locks in more future harm than good it releases" threshold:
...Game consoles, Smart home devices, biometric security, Farm equipment, off-road gear, EV chargers, routers, modems, medical devices, set-top boxes, and a ton of industrial stuff...
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I was curious about a source on this. I believe I found the final bill here. Lawyers correct me if I'm wrong. But section 5 indeed has a slew of carveouts for basically everything you would want this bill to cover:
- emergency communications equipment
- medical devices
- motor vehicles or equipment
- life safety systems
- farm or agricultural equipment
- video game consoles
- solar panels or batteries (in hilariously generic yet vague wording: "power generation or storage equipment and certain products that store electrical energy and transmit the energy after storage; products that generate or store electrical energy from solar radiation;")
- and more
Lame.
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Now cars and farm equipment. Let's gooo
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