{"id":17169,"date":"2018-09-26T11:27:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T16:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17169"},"modified":"2018-09-26T11:27:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T16:27:30","slug":"this-17-year-old-has-become-michigans-leading-right-to-repair-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17169","title":{"rendered":"This 17-Year-Old Has Become Michigan&#8217;s Leading Right to Repair Advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In 2012, Massachusetts passed a law forcing automotive companies to share diagnostic information with third party repair shops. The law set a precedent and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autonews.com\/article\/20140125\/RETAIL05\/301279936\/automakers-agree-to-right-to-repair-deal\" target=\"_blank\">the industry rolled out the changes nationally<\/a>. Now, Massachusetts has <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/7xq4zz\/massachusetts-senate-passes-resolution-to-do-in-depth-study-on-right-to-repair\" target=\"_blank\">commissioned a study to see if similar legislation<\/a> should extend to consumer electronics such as smartphones and video game consoles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/qvajpv\/michigan-teen-right-to-repair\">This 17-Year-Old Has Become Michigan&#8217;s Leading Right to Repair Advocate &#8211; Motherboard<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2012, Massachusetts passed a law forcing automotive companies to share diagnostic information with third party repair shops. The law set a precedent and the industry rolled out the changes nationally. Now, Massachusetts has commissioned a study to see if &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17169\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[288,1114,1405],"class_list":["post-17169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpe","tag-apple","tag-legislation","tag-right-torepair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17170,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17169\/revisions\/17170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}