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>Joe Biden Formally Backs Consumers'
>Right to Repair Their Electronics
>Jan 24 2022
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>President Biden became the first
>sitting president to give extensive
>comments supporting the right to
>repair and acknowledging the
>anticompetitive practices of
>electronics manufacturers that have
>spent the last decade creating repair
>monopolies and making it difficult
>for consumers to fix the things they
>own.
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>At a cabinet meeting Monday, Biden
>gave an update on the executive order
>he issued last year that directed the
>Federal Trade Commission to create
>right to repair rules that would
>enforce against anticompetitive
>practices. �The right to repair,� he
>said. �It sounds kind of silly saying
>it that way, but we call it the right
>to repair and it�s literal.�
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>�Too many areas, if you own a product,
>from a smartphone to a tractor, you
>don�t have the freedom to choose how
>or where to repair that item you
>purchased,� Biden added. �It�s broke.
>Well, what do I do about it if it�s
>broke, you had to go to the dealer
>and you had to pay the dealer�s cost,
>the dealer�s price. If you tried to
>fix it yourself, some manufacturers
>actually would void the warranty.�
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>Biden was referring here to practices
>by John Deere and Apple, as well as
>by video game console manufacturers,
>who as Motherboard reported violate
>the Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act with
>�Warranty Void if Removed� stickers.
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>In his statements, Biden said that
>he was �pleased to see the Federal
>Trade Commission unanimously
>announced that it would ramp up
>enforcement against illegal repair
>restrictions.� He also took credit
>for recent moves from Amazon and
>Microsoft that will, in theory,
>make it easier for people to gain
>access to repair parts and manuals
>for their devices. �
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>https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/qjbzpw/joe-biden-formally-backs-righ
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