With computers in more and more of the things we buy, it is vital that we have a digital right of repair so we truly control the things we own. Corporations must not be able to lock down their products so that we have to pay them exorbitant amounts to fix them or prevent people from determining their security vulnerabilities or even making improvements.<\/p>\n
The activists at Right of Repair<\/a> and iFixit have put forward two bills to support a digital right of repair: H.143 in the Massachusetts House<\/a> and S.96 in the Senate<\/a>. H.143 has 38 co-sponsors in the House. S.96 has 13 co-sponsors in the Senate. Massachusetts is the last state to have not sidelined digital right of repair bills. We have to get it passed here!<\/strong><\/p>\n Right now, we need to help get more legislators to support it and get it out of committee. Please find your legislators’ contact info<\/a> and call to urge them to support these bills. If they are already a co-sponsor (listed below), thank them for supporting the bill.<\/p>\n If your state representative or state senator are on the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection, all the better. Committee members are:<\/p>\n Senate <\/em>Committee Members<\/em><\/p>\n Barbara A. L’Italien, Chair House Committee Members<\/em><\/p>\n Tackey Chan, Chair And Digital Right of Repair bill supporters are:<\/p>\n Senate Supporters<\/em><\/p>\n House Supporters<\/em><\/p>\n Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With computers in more and more of the things we buy, it is vital that we have a digital right of repair so…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,32,8,22,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-copyright","category-slider","category-organizing","category-patents","category-right-to-repair"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ifixit_self-repair_manifesto_900x1390.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-1o1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5339,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5333\/revisions\/5339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMichael D. Brady (co-sponsor)
\nSal N. DiDomenico
\nRyan C. Fattman<\/p>\n
\nDaniel J. Hunt, Vice Chair (co-sponsor)
\nRuth B. Balser
\nJames Arciero
\nSmitty Pignatelli
\nJay D. Livingstone
\nJonathan D. Zlotnik
\nJos\u00e9 F. Tosado
\nJuana Matias
\nSteven S. Howitt (co-sponsor)
\nJoseph D. McKenna<\/p>\n\n\n
\n \nName<\/th>\n District\/Address<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n Michael D. Brady<\/a><\/td>\n Second Plymouth and Bristol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Thomas J. Calter<\/a><\/td>\n 12th Plymouth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n James E. Timilty<\/a><\/td>\n Bristol and Norfolk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Walter F. Timilty<\/a><\/td>\n Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Joan B. Lovely<\/a><\/td>\n Second Essex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Josh S. Cutler<\/a><\/td>\n 6th Plymouth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n William N. Brownsberger<\/a><\/td>\n Second Suffolk and Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Gailanne M. Cariddi<\/a><\/td>\n 1st Berkshire<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Carmine L. Gentile<\/a><\/td>\n 13th Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Thomas M. Stanley<\/a><\/td>\n 9th Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Kathleen O’Connor Ives<\/a><\/td>\n First Essex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Peter V. Kocot<\/a><\/td>\n 1st Hampshire<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Steven Ultrino<\/a><\/td>\n 33rd Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n\n
\n \nName<\/th>\n District\/Address<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n Claire D. Cronin<\/a><\/td>\n 11th Plymouth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n David M. Nangle<\/a><\/td>\n 17th Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n John H. Rogers<\/a><\/td>\n 12th Norfolk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Robert M. Koczera<\/a><\/td>\n 11th Bristol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Bruce J. Ayers<\/a><\/td>\n 1st Norfolk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Denise Provost<\/a><\/td>\n 27th Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Brian M. Ashe<\/a><\/td>\n 2nd Hampden<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Timothy R. Whelan<\/a><\/td>\n 1st Barnstable<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Louis L. Kafka<\/a><\/td>\n 8th Norfolk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n John J. Lawn, Jr.<\/a><\/td>\n 10th Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Carole A. Fiola<\/a><\/td>\n 6th Bristol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Steven S. Howitt<\/a><\/td>\n 4th Bristol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n James J. Dwyer<\/a><\/td>\n 30th Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Chris Walsh<\/a><\/td>\n 6th Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n David Paul Linsky<\/a><\/td>\n 5th Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Paul McMurtry<\/a><\/td>\n 11th Norfolk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Thomas J. Calter<\/a><\/td>\n 12th Plymouth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Marjorie C. Decker<\/a><\/td>\n 25th Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Danielle W. Gregoire<\/a><\/td>\n 4th Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Paul Tucker<\/a><\/td>\n 7th Essex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n James M. Cantwell<\/a><\/td>\n 4th Plymouth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Kate Hogan<\/a><\/td>\n 3rd Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Kenneth I. Gordon<\/a><\/td>\n 21st Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Angelo L. D’Emilia<\/a><\/td>\n 8th Plymouth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Joseph W. McGonagle, Jr.<\/a><\/td>\n 28th Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Stephen Kulik<\/a><\/td>\n 1st Franklin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Gerard Cassidy<\/a><\/td>\n 9th Plymouth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n John J. Mahoney<\/a><\/td>\n 13th Worcester<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Jeffrey N. Roy<\/a><\/td>\n 10th Norfolk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Kay Khan<\/a><\/td>\n 11th Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Aaron Michlewitz<\/a><\/td>\n 3rd Suffolk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Shaunna L. O’Connell<\/a><\/td>\n 3rd Bristol<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Sean Garballey<\/a><\/td>\n 23rd Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Lori A. Ehrlich<\/a><\/td>\n 8th Essex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Jonathan Hecht<\/a><\/td>\n 29th Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Michelle M. DuBois<\/a><\/td>\n 10th Plymouth<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Thomas M. Stanley<\/a><\/td>\n 9th Middlesex<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Daniel J. Hunt<\/a><\/td>\n 13th Suffolk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n