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this probably aims to thwart legislative action probably? From Section 3 of the MOU: In the event any state or federal legislation or regulation relating
by CuriousCosmic 4y ago
this probably aims to thwart legislative action
probably? From Section 3 of the MOU:
In the event any state or federal legislation or regulation relating to issues covered by this MOU and/or "Right to Repair" is enacted, each of AFBF and Manufacturer reserve the right, upon fifteen (15) days written notice, to withdraw from this MOU.
https://www.fb.org/files/AFBF_John_Deere_MOU.pdf https://www.fb.org/files/AFBF_John_Deere_MOU.pdf
It's a blatant threat that they'll double down on their practices if any state or the federal government tries to pursue right to repair legislation.
- labster 4y agoThe easy fix here is to make clauses like this unenforceable in the right to repair bills. Not that they’ll do it, but law outranks contracts.
- CuriousCosmic 4y agoI agree but the threat here is that if any one state successfully passes RTR regulation, they'll punish all the other states in response. Basically trying to put regulators and lobbying orgs into a "cold war" against them. This of course means that the only way to fix this without harming consumers is federal laws which is shitty because grassroots legal progress is far more preferable.