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Auto Industry Has Spent $25M Lobbying Against Right to Repair Ballot Measure
- lowdose 6y agoIt's such an underwhelming amount of money buy apparently politicians are really this cheap. Such a shame, you wonder why those guys feel so lousy about themselves they would bend the knee this quickly.
- Gunax 6y agoThis is a referendum. It's voted on directly by people.
- scep12 6y agoThe justification that this group has come up with (and was sent to Mass voters as part of voter registration info!) doesn't even pass the smell test. "Conor Yunits, the spokesman for the Coalition for Safe and Secure Data, said, "This ballot question will create easy opportunities for strangers, hackers and criminals to access consumer vehicles and personal driving data–including real-time location. It will put people at risk, without doing anything to improve the consumer experience." Via https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_Question_1,_%22Right_to_Repair_Law%22_Vehicle_Data_Access_Requirement_Initiative_(2020) https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_Question_1,_%22Right_t...