Right To Repair

Right to repair laws are very slowly emerging at state, national, and international (EU) levels -- to a paltry and nearly useless extent, I must say.

The question is, what can be done by regional/local governments who seem to just be passively sitting on this? What should we petition for locally, as the state/national/intl efforts continue to be a shit show? Small local govs would not likely have the power or influence to twist the arms of product makers. But it seems we should be demanding they do something.

My brainstorm so far, captured as a link farm:

• enhance repair cafés
• provide free repair training
• provide access to repair tools
• write a piracy exception into law for service manuals and wiring diagrams
• take a jab at Google’s gatekeeping of repair videos - how?
• make junk yards public access by mandate
• implement a public DB that tracks appliance disposal and sends notifications to repairers
• implement a public DB that tracks instances where manufacturers refuse to disclose docs
• somehow stop the pratice of charging as much to merely look at a broken machine as to replace it