E-Bike Industry Blames Consumers For Fires In Effort To Undermine ‘Right To Repair’ Laws

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Countless companies and industries enjoy making up scary stories when it comes to justifying their opposition to making it easier to repair your own tech. Apple claims that empowering consumers and bolstering independent repair shops will turn states into “hacker meccas.” The car industry insists that making it easier and cheaper to repair modern cars will be a boon to sexual predators.

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A hacker mecca sounds great!

The fucking irony of Apple saying that when they literally arose as a company from a hacker mecca. Woz and Jobs were hanging with Cap'n Crunch and got the seed money for Apple helping him run a phone hacking business.

But jobs is dead and Woz was chased out and still an absolute maniac in the best ways possible. It's not their Apple.