Nathan Proctor

Heads Right to Repair campaign w/ @USPIRG. Just let us fix our stuff #RightToRepair Member #Grist50 Also violence sucks.

[Nathan Proctor @nProctor]

Right to Repair -- the campaign to let you fix your stuff -- is off to the races in state capitols once again.

Turns out that people do want to fix there stuff, no matter where they live. Here's a quick 🧵 to give you a rundown:

[Nathan Proctor @nProctor]

doesn't sound like trump was too impressed by the auto makers anti Right to Repair pitch

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: Nobody's allowed to fix their car. They gave a man 7 years in jail actually because he fixed his own car, so I thought we'd do something about that. Can you believe it ?

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

I was just in a room full of national security officials and several complained about how contractors are destroying our military with right to repair restrictions. Pass this amendment.

[Nathan Proctor @nProctor]

Right to Repair is always a struggle, but despite all the opposition from the worlds most powerful manufacturers, we keep making strides.

Why? They can't undo common sense. People should be allowed to fix their stuff -- in the military, on the farm, in the schools, everyewhere.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

NEW: 79% of Americans and 300+ small businesses agree that Congress should make it easier for our military to fix their own weapons.

Why can't we get it done? Giant defense contractors are standing in the way.

This is a no brainer. Time for Congress to get right to repair done.

[Nathan Proctor @nProctor]

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce doesn't think the military should be allowed to fix their own equipment https://t.co/ZeI5OfhHaR

[Nathan Proctor @nProctor]

BTW, the idea that we have to "fight" to repair equipment in the military is hard to understand if you aren't in the lobbyist soaked environments in DC.

Because it's common sense, and we spend HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS on this equipment, and aren't even allowed to fix it.

[Briana Reilly @briana_reilly]

Readiness Subcommittee RM Garamendi teases the impending right to repair fight before HASC.

Goodlander/Harrigan have an amendment to give DOD government purpose rights for “any technical data, computer software, or computer software documentation” delivered under a contract.

[Nathan Proctor @nProctor]

Committee staff tried to claim that the bill addresses Right to Repair, but when we read the bill and consulted experts, our takeaway was that it makes the situation worse without amendments: https://t.co/QzzFfNlYLi

[Nathan Proctor @nProctor]

The House Armed Services Committee is beginning its markup of the 2027 NDAA, the bill that set military funding and policy. One of the big debates will be an amendment to add in Right to Repair protections for equipment the military buys -- but industry has been throwing a fit

[Nathan Proctor @nProctor]

They claim that Right to Repair violates their IP rights, but a set of legal scholars put together a rebuttal: Right to Repair is totally consistent with our IP laws. https://t.co/ArT27q6mea

[Nathan Proctor @nProctor]

As the details of the lawsuits against Deere for restriction Right to Repair get litigated, here's my quick explanation of what the fight boils down to, and why getting the remedies right is essential.

[Nathan Proctor @nProctor]

@FightFascismPod @matthewstoller wait you are rocking Clippy now, Matt?

[Nathan Proctor @nProctor]

Your smaller competitors? they pay full freight. People who run a small business? They pay personal taxes and corporate income taxes, while the big companies pay tax lawyers, not income taxes. Anyway read this: https://t.co/gfpnxZqazm

[Nathan Proctor @nProctor]

I used to organize around ending tax loopholes, and it was quite a political education in the American system to learn how little the biggest companies pay in taxes relative to their smaller competitors.

It's just outright scandal. There is no justification.

[Nathan Proctor @nProctor]

The bigger you are, the more easily you can play shell games, like selling your patents to Cayman's Island based holding company (that you own), and then pay them royalties equal to 100% of your profits (there are usually more steps than this, but that's one example in gist)

[The American Legion @AmericanLegion]

The American Legion sends a letter to both House and Senate Armed Services Committee leadership urging Congress to include the Warrior Right to Repair Act in the fiscal 2027 NDAA, supporting fair access to the technical data and materials needed for the military to maintain and repair its own equipment.

Read more about why this matters: https://t.co/3UYJn6ymgu

[Nathan Proctor @nProctor]

We need to push back. The idea that a company would leave a patient on the table without life-saving care because of a dispute over the businesses model is unacceptable, and of course, not the only example I've heard.

[Nathan Proctor @nProctor]

great thread on the case, which PIRG also submitted an Amicus in regards to.

This conduct is unfortunately pretty common -- and not just in the medical industry. Printer companies do the same to reprocessed ink cartridges. However, the consequences in medicine are dire.

[Sandeep Vaheesan @sandeepvaheesan]

1. @openmarkets just filed an amicus brief in Innovative Health v. Biosense Webster, a case before the Ninth Circuit with important implications for American healthcare and the fight for the public’s right to repair cars, electronics, and other durable equipment

[Nathan Proctor @nProctor]

When we allow monopoly rent seeking to proliferate in our already outrageously overpriced medical system, the result is widespread. Coverage becomes more expensive, and therefore less available. Vulnerable rural hospitals close.

[Nathan Proctor @nProctor]

I can't believe people pay for ads on X. Some of these ads show another ad before showing their own ad ... How much does ET have to spend for AT&T to run an ad over their ad? Does ET get a cut of the ad revenue from AT&T?

Just another day wading through a sea of slop

[Nathan Proctor @nProctor]

If you believe that we have a truth problem in this country, I think you need to come to terms with how commonly industry does this, and how much it erodes our civic process. It's just so gross.

[Nathan Proctor @nProctor]

This text went out and was forwarded to me. The REPAIR Act lets a car's owner control its data to some degree, including the right to ask that data to be deleted. The Auto Alliance is trying to get people to see it as a threat to privacy to protect their financial interests