Faced with new laws in California and other states, big tech lobbyists want to sign a "Memorandum of Understanding" to prevent "a compliance market where lawyers drive the decisions."

Faced with new laws in California and other states, big tech lobbyists want to sign a “Memorandum of Understanding” to prevent “a compliance market where lawyers drive the decisions.”

  • @ZeroFoxEnglish
    88•1 year ago

    So what they’re saying here is that it’s cheaper for them to drag rtr laws to court everywhere for years than it is for them to make devices repairable. Or, in other terms, planned obsolescence makes them so much money that they can spend billions in lawyer fees and still make a profit.

    • ZILtoid1991
      31•1 year ago

      Not really, a big driving factor behind making devices irreparable is to uphold the illusion of infinite growth.

    • Dangdoggo
      27•1 year ago

      Yup, or the Apple play which is just walk right around these regulations with some additional tricky bullshit while outwardly ‘supporting’ RtR. If I was a lawmaker I would be so fucking livid about this circumvention I would come back even harder but I guess I don’t know a lot about that process.

      • BobVersionFour
        15•1 year ago

        Forgot something if you were a lawmaker you probably had so much money from those company that you would not care.

        The goal here always been to make it look like they do something usefull not actually do it.

        • @[email protected]English
          3•1 year ago

          It’s supremely disappointing, looking up campaign contributions, how little money is required to influence our politicians.

          • BobVersionFour
            2•1 year ago

            Yeah at least make the corruption worth it but it’s hard to up the price when the guy next to you would take a trip to Delaware to vote the way they want