16-02-2023 23:00 via yro.slashdot.org

Big Tech Lobbyist Language Made It Verbatim Into NY's Hedged Repair Bill

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When New York became the first state to pass a heavily modified right-to-repair bill late last year, it was apparent that lobbyists had succeeded in last-minute changes to the law's specifics. A new report from the online magazine Grist details the ways in which Gov. Kathy Hochul made changes identical to those proposed by a tech trade association. In a report co-published with nonprofit newsroom The Markup, Maddie Stone writes that document
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