An EU-wide #RightToRepair has been adopted by the EU parliament with 584 votes in favour, 3 against and 14 abstentions. The directive now goes to the council and after it is officially published, member states have 24 months to implement it in national law.
@jwildeboer so wondering if this will apply to cars, as in the UK I'm seeing spare parts shops closing and garages closing as the car makers are making it harder and harder and more and more expensive to fix cars. It's also having the side effect of causing massive inflation on car insurance even if you don't own some Tesla type shit
@jwildeboer
So happy to see this!!! Another step toward a sustainable future.
There's so many old appliances with hardware that works completely fine that end up in the trash bin because of moronic software lockouts, built in tamper prevention and all kinds of consumer hostile design.
Apple especiallt takes the cake by hardware locking each individual component with IDs, making them impossible to replace elsewhere than their own repair shops. #consumerprotection#righttorepair#sustainability
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