How Big Tech Rewrote America's First Cell Phone Repair Law

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By EditorDavidFeb 11, 2023, 12:34 pm348 pts
Two non-profit news site, the Markup and Grist, have co-published their investigation into how big tech rewrote America's first cellphone repair law. "That New York passed any electronics right-to-repair bill is 'huge,' Repair.org executive director Gay Gordon-Byrne told Grist. But 'it could have been huger' if…

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