<story><title>Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices</title><url>https://grist.org/technology/microsoft-right-to-repair-quietly-supported-legislation-to-make-it-easier-to-fix-devices-heres-why-thats-a-big-deal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rychco</author><text>Lobbyists butchered this legislation. Many of the suggested edits[1] by lobbyists to weaken the original - made it into the bill verbatim [2]. How do New Yorkers feel about unelected parties writing their laws?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.documentcloud.org&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;23599780-technets-proposed-changes-to-digital-fair-repair-act&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.documentcloud.org&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;23599780-technets-pr...&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;assembly.state.ny.us&amp;#x2F;leg&amp;#x2F;?default_fld=&amp;amp;bn=S01320&amp;amp;term=2023&amp;amp;Summary=Y&amp;amp;Actions=Y&amp;amp;Text=Y&amp;amp;Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&amp;amp;Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#S01320&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;assembly.state.ny.us&amp;#x2F;leg&amp;#x2F;?default_fld=&amp;amp;bn=S01320&amp;amp;ter...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>dawidpotocki</author><text>&amp;gt; Later that year, though, the right-to-repair movement scored some big wins. […] The very next day, New York’s legislature passed the bill that would later become the nation’s first electronics right-to-repair law.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hard to call it a &amp;quot;win&amp;quot;. It has been sabotaged by the governor Kathy Hochul at the last minute, a year after it passed with supermajority. She was waiting a whole year to sign the bill and at the end decided add loopholes which made the bill worse than useless. People now think that the problem is solved when in reality nothing has been done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>frankfrankfrank</author><text>Most people don’t care and definitely don’t pay nearly as close attention as should be required to have the right to vote, let alone those who are payed massive amounts of money to manipulate corrupted politicians. Corruption is now or at the very least is well on its way to becoming systemic.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier to fix devices</title><url>https://grist.org/technology/microsoft-right-to-repair-quietly-supported-legislation-to-make-it-easier-to-fix-devices-heres-why-thats-a-big-deal/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rychco</author><text>Lobbyists butchered this legislation. Many of the suggested edits[1] by lobbyists to weaken the original - made it into the bill verbatim [2]. How do New Yorkers feel about unelected parties writing their laws?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.documentcloud.org&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;23599780-technets-proposed-changes-to-digital-fair-repair-act&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.documentcloud.org&amp;#x2F;documents&amp;#x2F;23599780-technets-pr...&lt;/a&gt;
[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;assembly.state.ny.us&amp;#x2F;leg&amp;#x2F;?default_fld=&amp;amp;bn=S01320&amp;amp;term=2023&amp;amp;Summary=Y&amp;amp;Actions=Y&amp;amp;Text=Y&amp;amp;Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&amp;amp;Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#S01320&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;assembly.state.ny.us&amp;#x2F;leg&amp;#x2F;?default_fld=&amp;amp;bn=S01320&amp;amp;ter...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>dawidpotocki</author><text>&amp;gt; Later that year, though, the right-to-repair movement scored some big wins. […] The very next day, New York’s legislature passed the bill that would later become the nation’s first electronics right-to-repair law.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s hard to call it a &amp;quot;win&amp;quot;. It has been sabotaged by the governor Kathy Hochul at the last minute, a year after it passed with supermajority. She was waiting a whole year to sign the bill and at the end decided add loopholes which made the bill worse than useless. People now think that the problem is solved when in reality nothing has been done.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kyrra</author><text>Most lawmakers are lawyers.  Meaning most of the time when they are writing laws in things, they are not th experts on such things. That the purpose of public comment periods, Publix hearings, and lobbyists being able to help craft laws.&lt;p&gt;Now, this seems to be a failure where there were not protests raised to this amendments or the lawmakers ignored such things.  Either way, the point of lobbyists is to allow industry experts to provide input.  If there is nothing wrong with their suggestions, I don&amp;#x27;t see a problem with verbatim including of their wording.&lt;p&gt;(I disagree with how the NY law was changed, but there are reasons lobbying exists).</text></comment>