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Because it is these professional repairers lobbying for the laws. This sort of thing always aims to get the law to identify some kind of professional certifica
by londons_explore 2y ago
Because it is these professional repairers lobbying for the laws.
This sort of thing always aims to get the law to identify some kind of professional certification needed to qualify, and then that certification gets more expensive and limited (eg. by saying studying a specific course is needed, but only X thousand places are offered per year).
Eventually, people who have done that course and qualification get so expensive that that becomes their only job, and you won't find a handyman-type person qualified to do those tasks.
- lost_womble 2y agoProfessional repairs are the ones lobbying for right to repair laws? Do you have proof for this outlandish claim?
- Aleklart 2y agoLuis Rossmann is a professional repair shop owner is known to lobby right to repair laws.
- londons_explore 2y agoThe most vocal person behind the right to repair movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npd_xDuNi9k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npd_xDuNi9k Oh, and he runs a professional repair shop...
- pretendgeneer 2y agoLouis is outspokenly against professional certification for repairs...
- blensor 2y agoSaying Louis Rossmann is fighting for the right to repair while trying to keep individuals from repairing their own devices is like saying Linus Torvalds created Linux to keep people from getting the idea to build their own operating system. Rossmann is fighting the good fight and also often doing videos showing how a repair actually works. Most famously a video where he showed that a certain type of common Macbook screen repair is just a simple bent pin that he even repaired for free while the official Apple repair would have cost hundreds of dollars
- robertlagrant 2y agoBut Linus scales to all Linux recipients. Repair laws can and will be lobbied into submission.
- pembrook 2y agoI think the internet has broken people’s brains. Yes, he’s a really nice guy and likable and I enjoy his videos too. But you cannot ignore the fact that he’s highly financially incentivized to hold the positions he does, given he both owns a repair shop and probably makes even more money talking about repairing things on YouTube.
- ivanhoe 2y ago> I think the internet has broken people’s brains. I agree, but what I see as a result is this paranoia that there's a conspiracy and something sinister in absolutely everything.
- blensor 2y agoCan't both things be true at the same time? * He is fighting an honest fight for the right to repair * His business is benefiting from right to repair laws For example when he supported the right to repair for farming equipment, I hardly believe he did that for his repair shop bottom line
- viraptor 2y agoThey're not just videos "about repairing". He's teaching people about defects, finding them, and how to repair them. He's selling tools used for repairs, even though someone can start a competing business. It's like you're being sceptical of teachers because they're getting paid.
- Pingk 2y agoWhy do you think he set up repair.wiki? It's a free resource he started to provide diagnostic and repair guides for a wide range of electronics. He's very transparent about wanting people to be able to repair their own devices and his actions clearly back that up. These are not the actions of someone being protective of their skills to make more money imo.
- stavros 2y agoYou kind of scuttled your own argument there by pointing to the exact opposite of what's being described upthread.
- rlupi 2y agoHe is in US. Thinking he has any influence lobbying the EU parliament on right to repair is bogus. This EU initiative comes from the circular economy action plan, which started in 2015, more than the US or global consumers' right to repair actions. https://environment.ec.europa.eu/strategy/circular-economy-action-plan_en https://environment.ec.europa.eu/strategy/circular-economy-a...
- tveyben 2y agoThen why is he sharing so many videos teaching/demonstration/commenting about how to fix Mac’s so you can do it yourself…?
- Etherlord87 2y agoFair, that's one. You need one more to make it plural.
- perihelions 2y agoIt'd be quite ironic if a "right to repair" would have provisions designed to prevent people from repairing their own electronics, because a business interest lobbied for that. (Contemplate an "open-source" license where the source is provided upon request, to government-licensed software professionals, and otherwise unavailable. We'd be living in this world if history went only very slightly differently. You can't invent that (FOSS) kind of radical sociology after the regulators catch up to you—let alone expect regulators to invent it for you).