#righttoown — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #righttoown, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://xoxo.zone/@davidcelis/117054792127968357
I seriously suspect certain #Democrats could gain a lot of support from demographics that have a disproportionate share of otherwise Republican-voting or non-voting people by committing to using all legal and budgetary tools of state power to restore the supply and reduce the price of PC and laptop DRAM (and SSDs too) for individuals and for organizations other than the hyper-scalers.
Potential policy actions include using (perhaps after amending) the CHIPS and Science Act, using the Defence Production Act, starting and funding FTC and antitrust investigations, and even creating a state corporation to build a chip fab specifically for RAM and SSDs in standard PC and laptop forms.
I could see Rep. #AOC and Sen. Elizabeth Warren successfully using this to direct attention and votes away from Republicans, even well outside #NY14 and #MA (respectively). A couple others who would be credible to advocate the federal government intervene to redirect semiconductor supply away from enterprise AI (HBM) and back toward general computing (DRAM) could include Joyner Kiros (already opposed to AI data center construction), and Dr. Abdul El-Sayed (already opposed by the entire oligarchy; he could address semiconductor hoarding both as part of his populist economic messaging and as part of the cost, through hospital hardware prices, of healthcare).
Combining and connecting RAM & SSDs with related issues of #rightToRepair, #rightToOwn, #privacy, land, water, electricity, pollution, noise, underhanded municipal interference, creative and intellectual labor theft, and opposition to the AI, cryptocurrency (in fewer places), and #surveillance (in more places) industries, several Democratic candidates could make headway with a demographic of voters who usually lean highly libertarian or politically disaffected—voters who heavily favored Republicans in 2024 due to Elon Musk’s aggressive anti-establishment electioneering (which they now realize was disingenuous). Right now, most of that base is feeling betrayed and irate, as the hyper-scalers are interfering with their passions, their property, their jobs, and their businesses.
Places which could be swung with such an expanded hardware-focused platform, where parts availability and affordability is addressed as part of R2R, may include #TX10 (home to a lot of tech manufacturing and a large population of hardware engineers and technicians who despise corporate anti-repair, including #LouisRossmann himself), and perhaps #NC13 (where a candidate would need to focus specifically on hardware price-gouging and the right to repair as matters of autonomy, while avoiding anything too "over-regulation" sounding).
#OR05 (a right-to-repair battleground with many independent repair professionals and DIY enthusiasts who view anti-repair as an assault on private property) already has a Democrat, but perhaps Rep. Bynum could secure support of a demographic of voters who might otherwise lean R by addressing this issue. Similarly, #NC02 (home of #GamersNexus) currently has a #Democrat, but perhaps Rep. Ross could meet with Steve Burke (whom I'm guessing is a constituent of hers) on GN and discuss this.
And then there's the "AI" industry and data center backlash, where, depending on riding, voters could be swayed with varying emphases. Land, water, and drought issues may reach voters in #TX21 and #AZ01; noise pollution and underhanded municipal interference in #VA10 and #GA06; creative and intellectual labor theft in #CA30 and #NY10.
To gain effective rhetoric, candidates and their staff could study a bunch of recent GamersNexus reporting, especially the #GNCA videos, and read the popular comments on those videos from fans. (I'd suggest @davidgerard as a source, but I'm guessing he's from the UK. AFAIK, Steve Burke is American. I'd volunteer if the #NDP or #GreenParty wanted to run on this issue. @avilewis?)
For examples of this messaging in practice, already credible voices for a #consumerRights focus include Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (a R2R champion in #WA03 who could appeal to libertarians, PC builders, and rural tech-hobbyists who voted Republican in 2024 but despise corporate infringement on private property), and Sen. Ron Wyden (a long-standing advocate for consumer privacy and digital rights in #OR — a state with a lot of tech professionals and digital sovereignty advocates).
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Another deep dive into ownership crisis. Musician talks about digital feudalism that came after music industry.
The title says it, you must pirate music, that is the only way to save it.
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Great to hear Kay Dean of #FakeReviewWatch discussing fake review with #rightToRepair and #rightToOwn advocate #LouisRossmann today. I’m looking forward to seeing what other consequences WeRecoverData will have brought upon themselves.
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From #LouisRosmann: “Here's proof the DMCA needs to be reformed or abolished.”
Repealing #DMCA1201 is another easy winning position for any non-sellout #Democrats with the courage and integrity to put the People's interests before the interests of rapacious monopolist #oligarchs. There's almost certainly not one remaining Republican candidate who's not too venal to take this stance, and it would win support of a lot of the "digital native" aged majority-white and majority-male tech enthusiast crowd, many of whom voted Republican last time, without alienating any other significant voting demographic (where technofeudal broligarchs, numbering fewer than the "likes" on this one video, count as insignificant).
Combine this necessary #rightToOwn legislative correction with #rightToRepair, a #privacy bill that would kill the data broker industry (which itself is a national security threat, as well as another winning issue with tech enthusiasts), protection of #E2EE (which would prevent the next #saltTyphoon, as well as being another winning issue with tech enthusiasts), and opposition to show-your-papers bills (the falsely so-called #ageVerification bills promoted by Meta to kill competition), and you already have a winning platform for this set of swing voters.
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Some non-corpie #Democrats are finally picking up #rightToRepair and #rightToOwn. Great to see. Angela Baker of #ParkrosePermaculture adapts the message well for audiences besides the nerds who’ve been subscribed to #LouisRossmann for years.
This is non-partisan issue that Republicans under Trump won’t touch, because they’re afraid of offending Donald’s patron oligarchs. It’s also an issue which will land well with a lot of voters who are much less likely to care about the usual leftist issues as such. It’s a great complement to those issues, and it doesn’t run contrary to anything important to the leftist or progressive base.
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I know we won’t hear it from either corporate party, so I’d love to hear about this from @avilewis of the #NDP.
I live in one of many blue/orange electoral districts, where there are enough gamers, technicians, mechanics, farmers, nurses, and ticked off normies jaded by conventional slimy politics that a sincerely blunt Graham Platner-esque economic populist message, framing leftist policy in terms of practical solutions to material conditions, paired with a #rightToRepair and #rightToOwn message, could swing the margin orange.
The same state capture by oligarchs enabled by DMCA § 1201 in the USA is enabled by the propagandically misnamed Copyright Modernization Act in Canada. My work puts me in discussion with a lot of locals about their electronics, and the anti-repair and anti-ownership effects of the CMA anger a lot of people, as does the barrier it imposes to migrating off Meta platforms and other US tech monopolies. (They don’t put it in those words, but they talk about frustrations with devices and services and the companies, and express feeling trapped.)
As @pluralistic points out, the CMA was enacted by Harper and Clement despite overwhelming Canadian popular opposition, ostensibly in exchange for a trade deal the US is now violating. However, that’s not the language to use with a bunch of blue-collar types, nor with a much of IT nerds. For the language to talk with them out here, listen to #LouisRossmann, to Steve Burke of #GamersNexus, and to analogous voices on topics of cars, farm equipment, medical equipment, military equipment, and personal electronics.
Ensure you and any NDP candidate running in a blue/orange district fluently understand these topics and discuss them in language relatable to working-class Canadians who don’t consider themselves “political,” by relating the topics to material conditions of people’s lives at home, in business, at the clinic or hospital, etc., and you’ll have something to offer that neither Pierre nor Mark will touch.
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@Miro_Collas so open-source it Nissan. Or we'll get Louis Rossman's Fulu to put a bounty on it.
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@marcoxa @thedarktangent @pluralistic Pretty much, but now the broligarchs are trying to force it on everyone. They really don't like taking "no" for an answer.
Indeed, that one thing—categorical unwillingness to respect others' refusal of consent—is the defining characteristic in common to every one of them. Despite how some viewers understandably took offence, Louis Rossmann characterized the you'll-own-nothing CEOs' mentality exactly correctly.
No wonder they bought the US government for the rapist-in-chief.
#technofeudalism #rightToRepair #rightToOwn #monopoly #enshittification
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Another channel where I'd love to see you appear, if you can, is Louis Rossmann's. Louis is a very active advocate for #RightToRepair and #RightToOwn, a likewise active opponent of #surveillanceCapitalism and #enshittification, and a strangely effective herder of tech-culture cats. He founded the Consumer Rights Wiki [1], and lobbies and organizes political campaigns which get gamers and PC builders out to city halls and state legislatures. His YouTube channel has 2.47 million subscribers, similarly active to the GamersNexus viewers, and the Consumer Right's Wiki editors may soon give the venerable @molly0xfff a run for her (figurative) Wikipedian money.
He's also covered the Bloomberg #DMCA abuse against GN [2], and volunteers to fund legal battles against such corporate #censorship. There's likely a large part of the combined audiences of GamersNexus and of Rossmann's channel which do not overlap demographically (or, for a significant portion, politically) with typical audiences of the venues where I've seen or heard of you (@pluralistic) presenting the book so far, yet those audiences are certain to be amenable to your message, so talking with those audiences could help both the sales and the mission of the book.
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[1] https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RJvrTC6oTI -
@leftylabourtech @wbftw @renatarocha @pluralistic The only political candidate in anglo Canada I’ve heard raise a related issue (#RightToRepair) is Bonnie Critchley. Although the Battle River–Crowfoot outcome was a foregone conclusion, because Pierre re-ran in the most singlemindedly partisan-tribalistic federal riding in the country—so he wouldn’t have to take “no” for an answer—Bonnie’s R2R message resonated with the portion of voters there who think enough before voting that they wouldn’t elect a rock of it were painted blue. There are a lot of orange/blue ridings in rural Canada, and a lot of gamers, technicians, mechanics, farmers, and so on who could be led to the orange side with a pragmatic, informed, and authentic message.
For example, if you want to make headway with the voters who follow the likes of “penguinz0” (on YouTube), #AviLewis (and why hasn’t your team created an account for you here yet, btw), start by watching the GamersNexus GPU smuggling documentary and the follow-up videos about the Bloomberg DMCA abuse. Share those. Then watch a bunch of Louis Rossmann advocacy videos, contribute to the Consumer Rights Wiki, and join the Consumer Rights Discord: but do NOT make like Jagmeet, when he was riding AOC’s coattails, cargo culting her Among Us fundraiser (for Texas freeze victims) without bothering to learn the game before showing up on a livestream with her and pro gaming streamers to an audience of millions who’d already raised > $100,000/h. Don’t present with a “How do you do, fellow kids” like that, but rather, respect your audience by knowing before you speak or act, or by watching, asking questions, listening, and reflecting when your host knows better.
Play your cards right, Avi, and you might be able to appear with Cory or Lina on GN or on Louis’ show, talking about R2R, #RightToOwn, monopolies and oligopolies, and the power they wield against us due to their abuse of market dominance. Defy all PR training about talking points, but be sure to give good faith answers to every question asked of you. Don’t bother mentioning the party unless asked—the Canadian viewers will figure it out—but shows like Steve’s (GN), and similar high-integrity journalism about other topics such as cars, medical devices, tools, and so on, can be your version of Mark Carney appearing on American comedy talk shows. A lot of Canadians watch those, and they’re currently not entirely enamoured with the entitled-snobbish Liberals or DARVO-whinging Conservatives.
Btw, Cory, you could probably get some favourable coverage of your latest book on Steve’s and Louis’ shows. It’s right up both audiences’ allies.
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Reverse-Engineering Milwaukee Battery Data. This is my idea of a good night in front of the TV :)
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My interviewer wishlist for @pluralistic about his #enshittification book (and, in the case of Steve from GN), on the #DMCA abuse by Bloomberg to censor the #GamersNexus documentary about GPU smuggling:
• Steve of GamersNexus, of course;
• @louisrossmann, the Katharine Hayhoe of #RightToRepair and #RightToOwn; and
• Jordan Harbinger, who has a very large and loyal audience spanning a wide political spectrum, listening to long-form intellectual interviews of experts about their books and research.(Paging @anneapplebaum.bsky.social: You've spoken to Jordan recently. Maybe mention the book and author to him?)
It will taker a wider audience to effectively build a base for campaigns to restore #competition: the restoration of #antitrust and the repealing of pro-monopoly laws.
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https://youtu.be/chPzslZKBhI?si=MonopolyBreaking
@pluralistic I'm certain you know of Louis Rossman but did you know he's now going after the DMCA?
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@NMBA Start with community networking (see the link below for a how-to series). That's the most effective way for those without extreme wealth or pre-existing political capital to build political influence and power. Here's a how-to. It can be adapted for any pro-social purpose which matters to most of your local community, so long as you and fellow organizers always put effectiveness over ideology. (That means setting aside purity tests and other performative nonsense in favour of evidence, reason, and legislative and budgetary results.)
In Alberta, you probably have plenty opportunity to organize around #RightToRepair and #RightToOwn, which can logically lead through self-sufficiency into digital sovereignty. A lot of inroads with traditionally conservative rural folks such as farmers can be achieved through R2R (as a means to affordability), and inroads with the disaffected urban gamer crowd through R2O (as a means to stop being ripped off). Meanwhile, the Alberta leftist minority can be reached through R2R as a means to reduce ewaste and R2O as a means to reduce socioeconomic inequity. You'll need to use that common ground to bridge the left-right divide in order to develop critical mass to swing city counsels, the AB legislature, and then the federal parliament.
I'll have to take a slightly different angle in my part of BC, probably starting with providing people an exit from Meta platforms, which are gradually choking off community connection while getting ever more flooded with slop and fraud, and continuing with people who are really ticked off about Windows 11 turning perfectly adequate computers into ewaste (which is a waste of scarce money and violates a lot of BC tree-hugging sensibilities). But I can branch from there toward digital sovereignty though a similar tangential link.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKG4P0uu-XSf9VIIFNO9rykocH2qfrHah
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I know it's not quite your usual genre, @pluralistic, but I'd love to see a political thriller, targeted like Burn-In (by Singer & Cole) towards political, military, and intelligence readers, covering anti-circumvention and #enshittification vs competitive compatibility, #RightToRepair, and #RightToOwn from the lens of geopolitics, foreign policy, and #nationalSecurity.
It's 2026, and China and Russia are about to invade Taiwan and another former Soviet bloc country, respectively. A successful joint NATO intelligence operation has revealed the 2027 invasion plans, including the planned coordinated disruption of the infrastructure of the target countries' allies, and their allies in turn. The would-be invaders have not learned of the intelligence operation.
To impede response, the would-be invaders plan to use China's control of the manufacturers of cloud-tied ICS hardware controlling electricity, fossil fuels, water and wastewater, telecommunications, airports, passenger and freight rail, container cranes, mil-industrial supply chains, medical devices, and other #criticalInfrastructure to impede responses from #NATO, #AUKUS, as well as Japan and South Korea if they intervene. To ensure access, they plan to use Russia's and China's extensive remote access to consumer IoT devices and CPE routers throughout all the target countries. The intelligence operation has revealed these plans.
Strategically, countering these plans would require repealing anti-circumvention laws, without which remediation of all the relevant means of malicious remote access cannot be accomplished on time. However, much like the fossil fuel lobby campaigning for policies which, if not reversed, eventually lead inextricably to human extinction, all the technofeudal oligarchs whose rent extraction depends on anti-circumvention use all their means, corrupt and otherwise, to keep these laws upheld.
The novel takes place after the intelligence operation's success, and before the planned invasions. The protagonists and antagonists in the Little Brother and Homeland universe suddenly find themselves paradoxically aligned in goals and interests, but their mission to prevent the catastrophic disruption to infrastructure and all the consequent harms is continually thwarted by DMCA 1201 and similar laws, the Zuckermuskians, and the politicians they own.
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Louis Rossman has gone from NY kid repairing customer's Apple products against Apple's wishes to "Right to Repair" and "Right to Own" champion.
While the actual devices discussed here are trivial, the core point is critical. Like so many other fundamentals of modern society we have to get this right even though it isn't particularly mainstream or sexy.
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Apple quietly lobbied to stop ‘Right to Repair’ bill, records show
https://jasongarcia.substack.com/p/apple-quietly-lobbied-to-stop-right?r=68h2g&triedRedirect=true
#RightToRepair #RightToOwn #TaxTheRich #NoBillionaires #VoteProgressive #SaveDemocracy #StopNeoliberalism #WorkingClassNotDonorClass #AOC2028
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Belkin Bricks Most Wemo Smart Home Devices, Again Demonstrating You Don’t Own What You Buy | Techdirt
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So, some updates regarding the Consumer Action Taskforce wiki
1. Now called the Consumer Rights Wiki (CRW)
2. I am now a moderator on the wiki!
3. If you want to help assist in making new articles but need inspiration to get started, I just created with the assistance of the wiki staff a new page, a backlog of incidents to handle on the wikihttps://consumerrights.wiki/Incident_backlog
#ConsumerRights #FuckCorporations #RightToOwn #RightToRepair #wiki #ConsumerRightsWiki -
John Deere Must Face FTC Lawsuit Over Its Tractor Repair Monopoly, Judge Rules
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Right to Repair Advocate Louis Rossmann Launches Foundation to Fight for Consumer Product Ownership
#RightToRepair #FuluFoundation #ConsumerRights #DigitalOwnership #LouisRossmann #Tech #Advocacy #RightToOwn #TechReform #ConsumerProtection #iFixit
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@dangillmor If anyone with a @garmin watch is pissed off about #Garmin retroactively revoking owners' #RightToOwn in favour of #enshittification, or if anyone else is in the market for a new smart watch, ask the #UNAWatch company and its personnel what technical and legal means they will use to guarantee they can never follow Google #Fitbit and Garmin into the same anti-consensual ¹ business model.
A technical guarantee is a hardware-based means to flash the firmware which the firmware itself cannot prevent using, paired with complete published open-access documentation of the hardware for independent developers. A legal guarantee means a permanent and irrevocable commitment to a full refund if the company ever engages in coercive tied selling, as by making use of any watch feature dependent on an online service the feature can function without, on a paid or non-#E2EE online service (save only if the owner opts into sharing data, and then making that data available to those with whom the owner elects to share), or an an online service the owner cannot replace, at the owner's sole discretion, with self-hosting or a competing service of their choice.
¹ The standard word "non-consensual" means the person didn't voluntarily say "yes"; I use "anti-consensual" here to mean the person said "no"—or the perpetrator knew beforehand the person would say "no" if given a chance—and the perpetrator did it anyway. It's bad enough not to ask; companies enshittifying already-purchased goods are instead acting in knowing and direct defiance of owners' refusal. The business model Garmin is adopting, following Fitbit, is actively contemptuous of consent ².
² Burying supposed "consent" in a EULA doesn't ethically count: if the owner cannot effectively refuse the change, or if continued full use of the original functionality—or anything else for which consent isn't strictly necessary (in the GDPR sense)—is conditioned on supposed "consent," then it isn't freely given, and so isn't valid consent.