Comment on Report: Consumer Hardware Still Often Impossible To Repair Despite New State ‘Right To Repair’ Laws

BrightCandle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The law comes in two parts, the actual written bit that says what it is and the enforcement. Most people consider the first part what is necessary and lobby hard for it but really the most important bit in a practical sense is how it gets applied and enforced, without which the law is worthless. In many countries one way to defang laws is simply underfund the legal system or quangos that do the enforcement, another is putting someone in charge at the attornies office who de-prioritises those cases. The law as written isn’t worth the paper/bytes its written on unless there is a plan for enforcement that doesn’t involve every poor person using the rich mans legal system.

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