Comment by neilv

> It has already submitted forum posts and social media evidence showing some users employing the system to disable emissions controls.

Is right-to-repair going to get scrod by illegal activity, like everyone got scrod by media piracy?

We knew we'd get scrod back when MP3 piracy started, and many people were warned what would happen, but they still did it, and it played out just like was warned.

Illegal activity creates both reason and pretext for forcibly taking away what should be rights. And those rights will be forcibly taken away, for both reasons. Often by crappy people, because you either forced their hand, or you handed the pretext to them on a silver platter.

This is one reason for tech freedom advocates to fully appreciate that they're operating in a political context, so that they're a sustainable positive force, not a counterproductive one.