Tech Companies Are Trying to Neuter Colorado's Landmark Right to Repair Law

Tech Companies Are Trying to Neuter Colorado's Landmark Right to Repair Law

A bill in Colorado is a glimpse into the future of how corporations are working to limit the freedom people have to make their own fixes and upgrades.

Tech Companies Are Trying To Neuter Colorado's Landmark Right-to-Repair Law

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Today at a hearing of the Colorado Senate Business, Labor, and Technology committee, lawmakers voted unanimously to move Colorado state bill SB26-090 -- titled Exempt Critical Infrastructure from Right to Repair -- out of committee and into the state s...

A New Colorado Bill Could Blow a Hole in the Nation’s Strongest Right to Repair Law

You can kill a Right to Repair law without ever voting against Right to Repair. You just carve out a category so broad, so fuzzy, and so lawyer-friendly that the companies you meant to regulate can simply point to it and walk away. That’s what Colorado Senate Bill 26-090 threatens to do. On paper, it looks technical. In practice, it could hollow out the strongest electronics Right to… Source