{"id":2090,"date":"2021-03-18T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/?p=2090"},"modified":"2021-03-18T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T21:04:00","slug":"covid-reaction-right-to-repair-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/covid-reaction-right-to-repair-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Reaction: Right to Repair Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s happening? A nonprofit in Portland salvages broken laptops, tablets and desktops, fixes them and provides them at low or no-cost to people who can\u2019t afford new ones. Super important for the new work from home adaptation in COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? The non profit had a hard time accessing repair parts and manuals that prevented independent entities from repairing computers. Enter bills like <a href=\"https:\/\/malegislature.gov\/Bills\/192\/HD260\">H260 (2021 | MA)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? Technet members opposes the bills saying they will make the devices more susceptible to hackers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.route-fifty.com\/tech-data\/2021\/03\/pandemic-drives-phone-computer-right-repair-bills\/172640\/\">Route Fifty |  Pandemic Drives Phone, Computer \u2018Right-to-Repair\u2019 Bills<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening? A nonprofit in Portland salvages broken laptops, tablets and desktops, fixes them and provides them at low or no-cost to people who can\u2019t afford new ones. Super important for the new work from home adaptation in COVID. Why is this important? The non profit had a hard time accessing repair parts and manuals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2091,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions\/2091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}