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 = What is right to repair?
-The principle of right to repair is that if you own a product, you should have the ability to obtain the parts, documentation, tools, and software access needed to repair or modify the product. Right to repair as a movement is assertive of the concept "that ownership should be absolute"--that buying means buying the freedom to maintain it and restore it without relying exclusively on the manufacturer @repair-org. A meaningful piece of right to repair legislation should include several consumer-rights guarantees: access to fairly priced replacement parts; access to service manuals, or at the minimum, schematics; access to diagnostic or specialty tools; and the ability to unlock any software restrictions @what-is-right-to-repair. 
+The principle of right to repair (RTR) is that if you own a product, you should have the ability to obtain the parts, documentation, tools, and software access needed to repair or modify the product. Right to repair as a movement is assertive of the concept "that ownership should be absolute"--that buying means buying the freedom to maintain it and restore it without relying exclusively on the manufacturer @repair-org. A meaningful piece of R2R legislation should include several consumer-rights guarantees: access to fairly priced replacement parts; access to service manuals, or at the minimum, schematics; access to diagnostic or specialty tools; and the ability to unlock any software restrictions @what-is-right-to-repair. 
 
-Decades ago, most consumer goods--such as cars and radios--were designed to be opened and serviced by anyone with basic mechanical skills, a lot of the time, there were even service manuals and schematics printed inside the products or supplied with them. @what-is-right-to-repair. Louis Rossmann, founder of Rossmann Repair Group Inc. notes in a 2020 video introducing his standpoint on right to repair, that personal computers "came with thick books of schematics," however, as of 2016, "repair centers cannot get access to schematics and diagrams." This shows  the shift in the culture surrounding repair, as electronics advanced and became physically smaller, these practices expanded beyond personal computers; household devices became increasingly dependant on software, began being sealed shut, and their technical information gate-kept from end users. Disposable products became the norm, and with repair being hindered heavily, the modern right to repair movement was born. A major turning point came in 2012, when Massachusets passed the nations first automotive repair laws @2012-mass-laws. Fisher from Landline.Media, a news outlet reporting on the trucking industry recounts that these laws required tools made available to the auto dealers also be made available for purchase to both owners and independent repair shops. With proprietary tools being made available to consumers and professional repairers, vehicle maintenance is made far more accessible to those with fewer funds, allowing their cars to last a lot longer than they would without regular scheduled maintenance.
+Decades ago, most consumer goods--such as cars and radios--were designed to be opened and serviced by anyone with basic mechanical skills, a lot of the time, there were even service manuals and schematics printed inside the products or supplied with them. @what-is-right-to-repair. Louis Rossmann, founder of Rossmann Repair Group Inc. notes in a 2020 video introducing his standpoint on RTR, that personal computers "came with thick books of schematics," however, as of 2016, "repair centers cannot get access to schematics and diagrams." This shows the modern shift in the culture surrounding repair, as electronics advanced and became physically smaller, these practices expanded beyond personal computers; household devices became increasingly dependant on software, began being sealed shut, and their technical information gate-kept from end users. Disposable products are becoming the norm, and with repair being hindered heavily, the modern RTR movement was born. A major turning point came in 2012, when Massachusets passed the nations first automotive repair laws @2012-mass-laws. Fisher from Landline.Media, a news outlet reporting on the trucking industry recounts that these laws required tools made available to the auto dealers also be made available for purchase to both owners and independent repair shops. With proprietary tools being made available to consumers and professional repairers, vehicle maintenance is made far more accessible to those with fewer funds, allowing their cars to last a lot longer than they would without regular scheduled maintenance.
 
 = Why should right to repair be important to me?
-Right to repair should be important to you because it allows you to maintain control over the products you own, reduce your waste production, save money, and increases technical literacy. Without right to repair, you would become dependant on corporate monopolies which can restrict access, inflate prices, and strip your freedom over the products you bought and paid for. If you care about your individual freedom, then right to repair should be important to you.
+Right to repair should be important to you because it allows you to maintain control over the products you own, reduce your waste production, save money, and increases technical literacy. Without regulations on anti-repair practices, people would become dependant on corporate monopolies--which can restrict repair access, inflating prices, and stripping freedom over the products you bought and paid for. 
 
 == Environmental concerns
 Apart from preserving liberty, increasing product maintainability has positive implications for environmental concerns. Global e-waste has reached critical levels: in 2024, the International Telecommunication Union reported that the world produced 62 million tons of discarded electronics, yet only 22.3% were properly collected and recycled @itu. This E-waste carries a much larger environmental footprint than traditional waste due to the complex manufacturing processes and vast amounts of resources needed to produce them. Discarding these devices prematurely requires new resources to be extracted, refined, and manufactured into a new product. Furthermore, electronic devices also contain heavy metals and chemicals which pose major pollution and health risks when improperly disposed of @itu. As shown in analytical models from the 2022 article "Right to Repair: Pricing, Welfare, and Environmental Implications," prolonging the use of a product can reduce waste generation and material exploitation, making right-to-repair crucial for sustainable consumption @jin2023Right_.
 
 == Cost saving
-@apple-supports @bar-right-repair-and-environment
+In addition to saving the planet, regulating anti-repair practices through RTR laws would directly save you money. As discussed previously, manufacturers make repairs needlessly difficult, leaving you with no option other than to discard devices. Instead of being forced to buy costly replacements, if repairable products were more commonplace, you would have the option to use an independent repair service, which are often cheaper (and quicker) than the official options. The average consumer spends spend about $$1,767 
 == Ownership
 == Ethical Issues
 This section will focus on the ethical issues surrounding IP infringement, and how replicability may parasitize manufacturer profits. @11021197