Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "Right To Repair Hearing At Nebraska State Legislature(edited, commentary)" video.

  1. Hey Louis, thanks and congrats for all the work you do, especially this thing: contributing for a common sense law to be passed, aka working for a better world. Now, I feel the need to express some things: 1) Even though things like the right to repair don't have much sense to be something to be taken into account just on a local scale, I do feel that the senator is entitled to ask anyone from where it is, even if it sounds totally dumb. For all they care maybe the people from Nebraska actually don't want this law, but somehow a lot of people from other states come to plead for it. Surely there can be nebraskians found to come and plead so this is no longer an issue. 1.a) When the senator had nothing to good to say about that satisfied customer from Nebraska... I see that as perfectly normal. He is not there to congratulate anybody. It's normal, given the time constraints, to only ask/talk only about the things that he doesn't like/know etc. I'd say, if all he had to say/point was a stupid argument, then all for the better, as that seems that everything else was ok, and that stupid argument can be cleared with ease. 2) In general I think that in order for a law to be passed, or at least for it to pass further, after this kind of talk (I don't know exactly how it works in US, I'm from Romania), the senators DO have to ensure that all aspects are taken into account. You can think of them to be the devil's advocate. However a dumb question might be asked, you guys should be prepared to answer it so the thing you're pleading for is without a benefit of a doubt good/better for all people, especially law and politics people. Think of them being like "ok, so you want this law that seems pretty common sense. But, you know there's big companies (or anyone else for that matter) that might not want that, and we're not technical enough to call bullshit on their part. How will you tackle this?" Aka is your job to provide as much evidence as possible that this will have no secondary effects or unforseen situations or abusable situations or affect unrelated parties etc. And that the things affected are with a reason (repair right will lower Apple's income, but will provide the consumer their right of ownership over the bought part or their human right dunno). It does sound a little like you'll have to do their work, but ... such is life. 3) As AkolythArathok said in this comment section, there needs to be a more serious pose. Talking about Repair Family is kind of distracting from the point aswell. Or things like "hey I have here a customer which is so happy, yay!". You actually did her job here with very clearly and shortly/on point saying "we do data recovery for which the customer has no option to do at the manufacturer, for any amount of money". That is how I think a point should be made. All in all, it was kind of sad, but totally not surprising to see this. And I have to congratulate for your speech. It was very on point, with clear arguments and examples. Now all you have to do for next year is to have everybody supporting this be as efficient and articulate as you :) And have everybody be able to totally demolish all (dumb) counterarguments presented here. And as you very well observed, to have this lobbying prior to the talk. The talk is just a showcase.
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