Colorado is the most aggressive right-to-repair state in the US, and tech companies want to roll it back. Since 2022, the state has passed three separate repair bills covering wheelchairs, agricultural equipment, and consumer electronics. Eight other states have passed some form of repair legislation, but none match Colorado's scope.
Now the industry is pushing back. The original article details the specific lobbying tactics manufacturers are using to gut enforcement mechanisms and narrow the legal definitions that make Colorado's laws actually functional. That gap between a law existing and a law working is where this story lives.
Danny Katz, executive director of CoPIRG, calls Colorado's framework the broadest repair rights in the country. Whether that holds depends on what happens next in the legislature. Read the full piece on Ars Technica to understand exactly which provisions are under attack and who is funding the effort to kill them.
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