FTC proposing ALL products with Energy Guide label come with repair instructions

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This report from ifixit is worth spending five minutes and a cup of tea with.

The Federal Trade Commission has just upped the stakes in its recent work to ensure consumers have a right to repair all the things in their lives. In a unanimous, bipartisan decision, the FTC has proposed new rules that would require all products displaying the Energy Guide label come packaged with repair instructions.

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Cory Doctrow also covered this and some of the wider context.
https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/18/administrative-competence/#i-know-stuff

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