Congress quietly strips right-to-repair provisions from 2026 NDAA despite wide support
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"I don't know how to interpret this, other than to say that industry prevailed in their influence over Congress," Greg Williams said.

Because of intellectual property laws, military equipment repairs have to be done by the manufacturer now instead of in the field. Hilariously dumb. Even the global war machine is now being consumed by the vampires of capital.

  • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Private why isn’t that fixed? What is your major malfunction numbnuts?!

    actually This is now proprietary of the vendor, sir! Only the vendor is allowed to service it, sir. The next avalable representstive is at least 3 weeks out and we need to ship this [3 ton] equipment to a non hostile location in a 3rd party partner nation, sir!

    Then what the hell do you do technician 2nd class?

    I mop the floor 20 times a day and send a single email which never gets responded to sir!

    maddened Carry on then!

    angry-place Most legally bound force in the world.